ISE SNS-3595-K9 Etherchannel

[MAGNUS SVENSSON]

Is it possible to connect the SNS-3595-K9 with etherchannel to my 6509 chassi, and if so how do I do that ?

[Rahul Govindan · Accepted solution]

I do not think you can do port-channel on the 6500 with 2 interfaces of ISE. But, as of ISE 2.1, you can bond 2 interfaces together into a Bonded interface to allow for link redundancy. More information here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/2-1/install_guide/b_ise_InstallationGuide21/b_ise_InstallationGuide21_chapter_0101.html#id_18597

[nspasov]

Rahul is 100% correct here. Port-channeling (PAgP, LACP, etc) is not supported in ISE. Interface bonding is the only option at the moment. 

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[Arie --]

Hi Rahul,
On the Cisco switch side which connected to Cisco ISE, what is port configuration that I need to configure?
Is it port-channel with mode 'on'?

Thank you
Arie

[waqas.suneel]

Hello, i am also in this situation, i want to know what configuration required at switch end. i need to configure port-channel.

[SHABEEB KUNHIPOCKER]

Hi Rahul,

When I use the bonding feature, what would be the configuration at the switch side where the ISE interfaces will be configured. I think it should be configured as access ports. Please advise.

Regards

[hslai]

The current ISE feature is NIC Bonding for High Availability and networking:bonding [Linux Foundation Wiki] says,

... The active-backup, balance-tlb and balance-alb modes do not require any specific configuration of the switch. ... 

[MAGNUS SVENSSON]

Thanks. It looks like the SNS-3595-K9 is built on the UCS platform, so for the Cisco engineres to get the etherchannel working should not be a problem....