What Happens when an interface Attached to a Port-Channel goes down?

[MAnoj Kumar]

What Happens when an interface Attached to a Port-Channel goes down?

I do know the Speed will reduce ( Duh !) , Apart from that any STP recalculation will happen ?

[Anup Sasikumar]

As far as my understanding goes , Interfaces which are part of a Port Channel is exempted from STP calculation . I believe , configuring bundling ports to a Port Channel can be considered as a quick way to use all the trunk ports connected .

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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Well if it's the only remaining channel link, the port-channel goes down.  If not the only remaining channel link, the port-channel continues without it.  As you note, you lose bandwidth and I believe traffic will be rehashed across the remaining channel links, which can result in less optimal load distribution.

Protocols like STP or a routing protocol shouldn't see a link outage or flap.