Etherchannel / no switchport question

[ngthen]

Can I bond two ports together on a switch and then make those an L3 interface (i.e. no switchport)? This is basically for redundancy if one port should fail.

[Edison Ortiz]

Yes, see:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_46_se/configuration/guide/swethchl.html#wp1404590

HTH,

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Edison

[Yudong Wu]

You can use layer 3 etherchannel.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SXF/native/configuration/guide/channel.html#wp1020436