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L3 Port-Channel issue

Kiley Arena
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Hello there,

I've got a L3 etherchannel issue whereby I cannot add additional ports into the existing bundle (which currently has only 1 interface to it).  When I attempt to add a 2nd interface, it is down within the port-channel.  Here are the configs for both of the end devices:

sw 2

int gi1/0/49

no switchport

no ip address

channel-protocoal pagp

channel-group 1 mode desirable

int gi1/0/50

no switchport

no ip address

channel-protocol pagp

channel-group 1 mode desirable

int port-channel 1

no switchport

ip address xx.xx.xx.xx

no ip redirects

no ip unreachables

sw1

int gi1/1/5

no switchport

no ip address

channel-protocol pagp

channel-group 144 mode desirable

int gi2/1/5

no switchport

no ip address

channel-protocol pagp

channel-group 144 mode desirable

int port-channel144

no switchport

ip address xx.xx.xx.xx

no ip redirects

no ip unreachables

                  

When I do a show etherchann summ, this is what is displayed:

on sw2

group 1       Po 1(RU)          PAgP          Gi1/0/49(P)     Gi1/0/50(D)

on sw 1

group 144  Po 144 (RU)     PAgP          GI1/1/5(P)     GI2/1/5(D)

I've googled around and everything I've found so far is for L2 etherchannel issues so looking at the trunks doesn't help me.  What I've read so far is that with PAgP, adding additional interfaces should be a snap but it doesn't appear that way in my case. 

If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful.

Thanks very much in advance.

Kiley

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Hi Kiley,

It looks basic but did not see that checked above:

is the link Gi1/0/50 -- Gi2/1/5 coming up if you bringing that UP as individual one outside of port-channel?

Just want to eliminate any chances of physical link issues.

Nik

HTH,
Niko

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InayathUlla Sharieff
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

This is the most common issue seen.

Workaround: remove the port-channel and re-configure it to avoid much TS on this.


Regards

Inayath

I was hoping to avoid that but we have an outage scheduled for this soon so I will do that...

Thanks!

Kiley

Hi Kiley,

It looks basic but did not see that checked above:

is the link Gi1/0/50 -- Gi2/1/5 coming up if you bringing that UP as individual one outside of port-channel?

Just want to eliminate any chances of physical link issues.

Nik

HTH,
Niko

I tried to bring up the interfaces outside the bundle as trunks but they did not come up.  Gi1/0/50, when it was in the bundle, came up briefly but then was put into a suspended status and I got a message indicating the remote side was not configured (it had the configs I listed above).  I will reverify the physical path between the two switches before I try to readd them to the bundle.

Thanks very much for all of your assistance!

Kiley


Nik,

Yeah, there was a physical problem that knocked out the interface from the port-channel.  We got the layer 1 problem corrected and put the port-channel back together again.

Thanks everyone for their responses - I greatly appreciate them!

Kiley