Configuring Hot Standby Ports; Configuring The Lacp System Priority - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 30 Configuring EtherChannels
Command
Step 5 show running-config
or
show lacp channel-group-number
internal
Step 6
copy running-config startup-config

Configuring Hot Standby Ports

When enabled, LACP tries to configure the maximum number of LACP-compatible ports in a channel,
up to a maximum of 16 ports. Only eight LACP links can be active at one time. Any additional links are
put in a hot standby state. If one of the active links becomes inactive, a link that is in hot standby mode
becomes active in its place.
If more than eight links are configured for an EtherChannel group, the software determines which of the
hot standby ports to make active based on:
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All ports default to the same port priority. You can change the port priority of LACP EtherChannel ports
to specify which hot standby links become active first by using the lacp port-priority interface
configuration command to set the port priority to a value lower than the default of 32768.
The hot standby ports that have lower port numbers become active in the channel first unless the port
priority is configured to be a lower number than the default value of 32768.
If LACP is not able to aggregate all the ports that are compatible (for example, the remote system might
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have more restrictive hardware limitations), all the ports that cannot be actively included in the
EtherChannel are put in hot standby state and are used only if one of the channeled ports fails.

Configuring the LACP System Priority

You can set the system priority for all the EtherChannels that are configured for LACP by using the
lacp system-priority privileged EXEC command. The range is from 1 to 65535.
The lacp system-priority command is global. You cannot set a system priority for each
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LACP-configured channel separately.
We recommend using this command only when there are a combination of LACP-configured
EtherChannels that are in both active and standby modes.
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Purpose
Verify your entries.
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
LACP port-priority
Port ID
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