Etherchannel Bundle Combinations - The Road To Success

Every once in a while I see Networking people debating and discussing about why ether channel is not coming up or asking if particular ether channel settings combination is gonna work. So below is the quick ref considering all possible combinations :

Further Readings:

http://blog.ipexpert.com/2009/12/23/explaining-etherchannel/

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094714.shtml

http://blog.ipexpert.com/2010/07/12/etherchannel-over-dot1q-tunnels/

http://cciepursuit.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/port-channel-interface-charactoristics/


http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/jan/18/etherchannel-considerations/


http://packetlife.net/blog/2009/dec/10/etherchannel-costs-and-failover/


HTH...
Deepak Arora
Evil CCIE