Ether Channeling on two different sfp modules

[mohd abdul malik]

Hi Experts,

I would like to know if an Ether channel can be created using two different SFP modules i.e using

glc-sx-mm and glc-lh-sm on a switch or on any other device.

Thanks

Abdul Malik.

[Dragan Ilic · Accepted solution]

I didn't tested something like this in production. But having in mind that you can bundle copper and SFP interfaces in etherchannel as long as they have same speed, L2/L3 config etc I think that this is possible...but not 100% sure

HTH,
Dragan

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

Abdul

Etherchannel does not care about the physical media as long as things like speed, duplex etc. match.

So Dragan is right that it should work fine.

Jon

[mohd abdul malik]

Thanks for the valuable replies.

Also i would like to know if there is a particular cisco document or something that specifies the same coz i have to share the same with a customer.

[Dragan Ilic]

Well I can only recommend global document like this one for example:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/etherchannel/12025-49.html

HTH,
Dragan

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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That reference doesn't appear to mention, on the 6500s, if you do Etherchannel across line cards with different QoS architectures, Etherchannel may be "unhappy".  There's a no mls qos channel-consistency command to address this.