Command rejected: Po1 not a switching port on Cisco Catalyst 4500

por | 28 enero, 2013

check the etherchannel status

S4#show etherchannel summary
Flags:  D – down        P – bundled in port-channel
I – stand-alone s – suspended
H – Hot-standby (LACP only)
R – Layer3      S – Layer2
U – in use      f – failed to allocate aggregator
M – not in use, minimum links not met
u – unsuitable for bundling
w – waiting to be aggregated
Number of channel-groups in use: 1
Number of aggregators:           1
Group  Port-channel  Protocol    Ports
——+————-+———–+———————————————–
1      Po1(RU)          –        Gi2/6(P)   Gi2/10(P)

see.. RU . it’s a layer 3 port
by default, if you start the machine and you see the name is router> then, all ports are layer 3 port
if switch> then all ports are on switchport mode
just change to layer2 are switchport to solve this

>switchport on both Gi2/6, Gi2/10
>switchport on po 1

show etherchannel again

SW1#show eth sum
Flags:  D – down        P – bundled in port-channel
I – stand-alone s – suspended
H – Hot-standby (LACP only)
R – Layer3      S – Layer2
U – in use      f – failed to allocate aggregator
M – not in use, minimum links not met
u – unsuitable for bundling
w – waiting to be aggregated
Number of channel-groups in use: 1
Number of aggregators:           1
Group  Port-channel  Protocol    Ports
——+————-+———–+———————————————–
1      Po1(SU)          –        Gi2/6(P)   Gi2/10(P)

now SU already… happy trunking !!