Etherchannel and HP teaming

[meganckk]

Hi,

Is it possible to setup an etherchannel on a Cisco 2950 and an HP Proliant DL360 (W2K3)?

Teaming is set up as SLB and balance with the mac address.

On the cisco i created an interface port-channel 1

and putted the 2 interfaces in channel-group 1 mode desirable.

I can see the etherchannel on the cisco but the status is down.

Kristine

[Prashanth Krishnappa · Accepted solution]

Change the channel mode to "on" instead of desirable using "channel-group 1 mode on" under both physical interfaces

[meganckk]

Ok. Thanks al lot.

Do you have a doc that describes this ?

I assumed i had to balance with the mac address because of the layer 2 etherchannel but i changed it to ip-address and it works also.

Is this because the Transmit Load Balancing is done by the HP software ? and the Receive Load Balancing is done by the switch. Correct ?

I have to replace a 3524XML swith with a 2950.

The 3524XML had 11 etherchannels - will i be limited to 6 etherchannels on the 2950.

Thanks,

Kristine

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

You would use desirable mode only if both link partners support PAGP. The following page should help

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/184.html

CAT2950 supports maximum of 6 ether-channels with eight ports per EtherChannel.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat2950/12119ea1/2950scg/swethchl.htm