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What Is Layer 3 Etherchannel

Layer 3 EtherChannel allows bundling multiple physical links into a single logical link at the network layer, enabling traffic routing and increased bandwidth. Configuration requires the 'no switchport' command before creating a port-channel, followed by assigning IP addresses and enabling routing protocols like EIGRP. Verification can be done using show commands and ping tests to ensure connectivity between devices.

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What Is Layer 3 Etherchannel

Layer 3 EtherChannel allows bundling multiple physical links into a single logical link at the network layer, enabling traffic routing and increased bandwidth. Configuration requires the 'no switchport' command before creating a port-channel, followed by assigning IP addresses and enabling routing protocols like EIGRP. Verification can be done using show commands and ping tests to ensure connectivity between devices.

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What is layer 3 etherchannel? How to configure layer 3 etherchannel?

EtherChannel technology allows us to bundle multiple physical links into one logical
link. It is used to increase the bandwidth and provide redundancy between multiple
layer 2 / layer 3 interfaces. Layer 2 EtherChannel operates on the data link layer,
but layer 3 EtherChannel operates at the network layer, allowing it to route
traffic. Ether-channel load balances traffic over all the links in the bundle. We can
use a maximum 8 physical interfaces to configure the bundle into a single logical
link.
Note:- when we configure the port channel (layer 3) we must configure No
switchport command before using the command port-channel. if we do not
configure no switchport command. the port channel will be the default layer 2
channel and we can not change it. To avoid this, configure no switchport command.

let's see the configuration of layer 3 EtherChannel:-


Topology:

Goal: configure layer 3 port-channel verify with show commands and configure
routing verify with ping.
 configure the topology as per the diagram
 configure the IP addresses as per the topology
 configure portchannel
 verify port-channel
 configure routing EIGRP
 configure IP on VLAN 1
 verify with show commands.
 ping

IOU1(config)#interface range ethernet 0/0-3


IOU1(config-if-range)#no switchport

IOU1(config-if-range)#channel-group 10 mode on
Creating a port-channel interface Port-channel 10
IOU1(config-if-range)#exit

IOU1(config)#interface port-channel 10
IOU1(config-if)#ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
IOU1(config-if)#no shutdown
IOU1(config-if)#exit

%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Port-channel10, changed state


to up

IOU2(config)#interface range ethernet 0/0-3


IOU2(config-if-range)#no switchport
IOU2(config-if-range)#channel-group 10 mode on
Creating a port-channel interface Port-channel 10
IOU2(config-if-range)#exit

IOU2(config)#interface port-channel 10
IOU2(config-if)#ip address 192.168.10.2 255.255.255.0
IOU2(config-if)#no shutdown
IOU2(config-if)#exit
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Port-channel10, changed state
to up

IOU1#show etherchannel port-channel


Channel-group listing:
----------------------

Group: 10
----------
Port-channels in the group:
---------------------------

Port-channel: Po10
------------

Age of the Port-channel = 0d:00h:29m:12s


Logical slot/port = 16/0 Number of ports = 4
GC = 0x00000000 HotStandBy port = null
Passive port list = Et0/0 Et0/1 Et0/2 Et0/3
Port state = Port-channel L3-Ag Ag-Inuse
Protocol = -
Port security = Disabled

Ports in the Port-channel:

Index Load Port EC state No of bits


------+------+------+------------------+-----------
0 00 Et0/0 On 0
0 00 Et0/1 On 0
0 00 Et0/2 On 0
0 00 Et0/3 On 0

Time since last port bundled: 0d:00h:29m:12s Et0/3


IOU2#show etherchannel
Channel-group listing:
----------------------

Group: 10
----------
Group state = L3

Ports: 4 Maxports = 4
Port-channels: 1 Max Port-channels = 1
Protocol: -
Minimum Links: 0

IOU1(config)#ip routing

IOU1(config)#router eigrp 100


IOU1(config-router)#network 10.0.0.0
IOU1(config-router)#network 192.168.10.0
IOU1(config-router)#no auto-summary
IOU1(config-router)#exit

IOU2(config)#ip routing
IOU2(config)#router eigrp 100
IOU2(config-router)#network 20.0.0.0
IOU2(config-router)#network 192.168.10.0
IOU2(config-router)#no auto-summary
IOU2(config-router)#exit
%DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: EIGRP-IPv4 100: Neighbor 192.168.10.1 (Port-channel10) is
up: new adjacency
%DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: EIGRP-IPv4 100: Neighbor 192.168.10.2 (Port-channel10) is
up: new adjacency
IOU1(config)#interface ethernet 1/0
IOU1(config-if)#switchport
IOU1(config-if)#switchport mode access
IOU1(config-if)#switchport access vlan 1
IOU1(config-if)#exit
IOU1(config)#interface vlan 1
IOU1(config-if)#ip address 10.1.1.1 255.0.0.0
IOU1(config-if)#no shutdown
IOU1(config-if)#exit
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Vlan1, changed state to up

%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Vlan1, changed state to up

IOU2(config)#interface ethernet 1/0


IOU2(config-if)#switchport
IOU2(config-if)#switchport mode access
IOU2(config-if)#switchport access vlan 1
IOU2(config-if)#exit
IOU2(config)#interface vlan 1
IOU2(config-if)#ip address 20.1.1.1 255.0.0.0

IOU2(config-if)#no shutdown
IOU2(config-if)#exit

%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Vlan1, changed state to up


\%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Vlan1, changed state to up

IOU2#ping 10.1.1.1 source 20.1.1.1


Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.1.1.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
Packet sent with a source address of 20.1.1.1
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/6 ms

IOU2#traceroute 10.1.1.1
Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 10.1.1.1
VRF info: (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)
1 192.168.10.1 1 msec 5 msec 0 msec

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