Understanding Port-Channel Interfaces - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Manual

Chapter 10 Configuring the Switch Ports
Figure 10-1 Typical EtherChannel Configuration

Understanding Port-Channel Interfaces

When you create an EtherChannel for Layer 2 interfaces, a logical interface is dynamically created. You
then manually assign an interface to the EtherChannel by using the channel-group interface
configuration command as shown in
Each EtherChannel has a logical port-channel interface numbered from 1 to 6.
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