Dell 6448

LINK AGGREGATION INTEROPERABILITY ™ OF THE DELL ™ POWERCONNECT 6200 SERIES

WITH CISCO IOS OR CISCO CATOS BASED SWITCHES
By Bruce Holmes

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INTRODUCTION LINK AGGREGATION WITH GIGABIT ETHERNET CISCO SWITCHES CONFIGURING THE 6200 SERIES SWITCH PORTS FOR DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIGURING A CISCO IOS GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH FOR DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIGURING A CISCO CATOS GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH FOR DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIRMING A SUCCESSFUL DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONNECTION WITH THE 6200 SERIES SWITCH CONFIRMING A SUCCESSFUL DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONNECTION WITH CISCO IOS CONFIRMING A SUCCESSFUL DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION CONNECTION WITH CISCO CATOS CONFIGURING THE 6200 SERIES PORT FOR STATIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIGURING A CISCO IOS SWITCH FOR STATIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIGURING A CICSO CATOS SWITCH FOR STATIC LINK AGGREGATION CONFIRMING A SUCCESSFUL STATIC LINK AGGREGATION CONNECTION LINK AGGREGATION WITH CISCO FAST ETHERNET SWITCHES CONFIGURATION LIMITATIONS CISCO AND DELL PORT CONFIGURATION DIFFERENCES CISCO AND DELL LAG DISTRIBUTION CONFIGURATION

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LINK AGGREGATION INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL POWERCONNECT 6200 SERIES SWITCH
INTRODUCTION This paper describes how to configure the Dell™ PowerConnect™ 6200 Series Gigabit Ethernet switch to interoperate and connect with Cisco IOS based switches when using industry standard link aggregation groups (LAGs) that adhere to the IEE 802.3ad standard. This paper discusses both static and dynamic LAGs. The PowerConnect 6200 Series switches include the PC6224, PC6248, PC6224P, PC6248P, PC6224F, and M6220. The table below shows some of the terms used to refer to LAGs in Dell and Cisco documentation. This paper will use the term LAG.

DELL POWERCONNECT Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) Port-channel Channel-group

CISCO IOS/CATOS EtherChannel Fast EtherChannel (FEC) Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) Channeling Channel-group

The primary