Layer 3 Etherchannel on Cisco IOS Switch

Hi Alan,

  1. This was an error which I just fixed. On both ends it should be “no switchport”. There’s two ways how you can create the Etherchannel, you could first manually create the port channel interface and add the physical interfaces or you can do what I did. If you assign physical interfaces to a non-existing port channel then it will be automatically created.

  2. Hmm I haven’t tried this but I guess it could work. It’s similar to connecting a router interface (L3 routed port) to a switch (L2 switchport).

  3. Load balancing is the same for L2 and L3 and you can use a different load balancing method on each side.

Rene