Help with "show etherchannel" command

[ovt]

Hi!

Does anybody know what "Max Port-channels = 16" mean in the following output?

Group: 2

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Group state = L2

Ports: 2 Maxports = 8

Port-channels: 1 Max Port-channels = 1

Protocol: PAgP

Group: 5

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Group state = L2

Ports: 2 Maxports = 16

Port-channels: 1 Max Port-channels = 16

Protocol: LACP

Why does PAgP shows "Max Port-channels = 1" whilst LACP shows "Max Port-channels = 16"?

Oleg Tipisov,

REDCENTER

[wong34539]

The Max Port Channels are the maximum number of channels allowed by the hardware. For example the below guidelines are for configuring etherchannel :

* Configure a PAgP EtherChannel with up to eight Ethernet interfaces of the same type.

* Configure a LACP EtherChannel with up to 16 Ethernet interfaces of the same type. Up to eight ports can be active, and up to eight ports can be in standby mode.