Can EtherChannel be considered as Routed Port?

[Mansoor Hafeez]

Hi

I have a scenario where my core Switches are Cisco and I have to now provide connectivity from these Cores to HP Blade Switches.

Since the STP is configured as RPVST+ on whole Cisco devices and I cannot change it due to service interuption, we have no possibility to provide Layer 2 Redundancy with HP. Thus we have decided to configured the interfaces as Layer 3 on both ends.

Now the question is if I will create Port Channel Interface with two ports each on both Cisco and HP Switches and configured that Port Channel as Layer 3 instead of Layer 2, will this Port Channel port consider as pure L3 Routed Port or still layer 2 connectivity exists in between them?

With Best Regards

Mansoor Hafeez

[cadet alain]

Hi,

Now the question is if I will create Port Channel Interface with two 
ports each on both Cisco and HP Switches and configured that Port 
Channel as Layer 3 instead of Layer 2, will this Port Channel port 
consider as pure L3 Routed Port or still layer 2 connectivity exists in 
between them?

the answer is it will be considered as pure L3 port.

Regards.

[Jon Marshall]

mansoorhafeez wrote:
Hi
I have a scenario where my core Switches are Cisco and I have to now provide connectivity from these Cores to HP Blade Switches.
Since the STP is configured as RPVST+ on whole Cisco devices and I cannot change it due to service interuption, we have no possibility to provide Layer 2 Redundancy with HP. Thus we have decided to configured the interfaces as Layer 3 on both ends.
Now the question is if I will create Port Channel Interface with two ports each on both Cisco and HP Switches and configured that Port Channel as Layer 3 instead of Layer 2, will this Port Channel port consider as pure L3 Routed Port or still layer 2 connectivity exists in between them?
With Best Regards
Mansoor Hafeez

Mansoor

Just to clarify. You would configure the physical ports as routed ports ie. "no switchport", create the port-channel interface (because unlike L2 etherchannel it is not created automatically) and then apply the IP address to the port-channel interface.

Then as Cadetalain said, it is purely a L3 connection.

Jon