12-38
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
OL-26572-01
Chapter
12






Configuring

Network

Access
Configuring
Port-Channel

Interfaces

for

the

ACE

Appliance
Step
6
(Optional)
To

display

statistics

and

status
information
for

a

particular
port-channel
interface,

choose

the
interface
from

the

Port

Channel

Interfaces

table,

and

click

Details.
The
show

interface

port-channel

CLI

co

mmand

output

appears.

See

th

e

“Displaying

Port

Channel
Interface
Statistics

and

Status

Information”

section

on

page

12-40

for

details.
Related
Topics

•
Configuring
Port-Channel

Interfaces

for

the

ACE

Appliance,

page
12-35

•
Configuring
Port-Channel

Interfaces

for

the

ACE

Appliance,

page
12-35

•
Displaying
Port

Channel

Interface

Statistics

and

Status

Information,

page
12-40

•
Configuring
Virtual

Context
VLAN
Interfaces,
page
12-6
Configuring
a

Catalyst

6500

Series

Switch

for

an

ACE

Appliance

Port-Channel
Interface
Connection
This
section

provides

information

for

you

to

configure

a

port-channel

interface

on

a

network

device

such
as
the

Catalyst

6500

Series

switch.

After

you

configure

the

port

channels

for

the

ACE

appliance

through
ANM
and

you

physically

connect

the

Gigabit

Ethernet

physical

interfaces

on

the

ACE

appliance

to

the
Catalyst
6500

Series

switch

ports,

configure

the

port

channels

on

the

switch.

The

information

outlined
in
this

topic

is

intended

as

an

example

of

configuring

port

channels

on

a

switch.

You

can

adapt

this
information
for

whatever

switch

the

ACE

appliance

is

connected

to

in

your

network.
For
specific

details

on

co

nfiguring

the

Catalyst

6500

Series

switch,

see

the

documentation

set

on
www.Cisco.com.
This
section

includes

the

following

topics:

•
Creating
the
Port
Channel
Interface

on

the

Catalyst

6500

•
Adding
Interfaces

to

the

Port

Channel
Creating
the

Port

Channel

Interface

on

the

Catalyst

6500
This
section

contains

and

example

in

which

a

Catalyst

6500

Series

switch

is

configured

with

a

port
channel
using

an

802.1q

trunk

that

allows

the

associated

VLANs.

The

native

VLAN

of

the

trunk

is
VLAN
10.
Note
Default
VLAN

1
should
not


be

used

for

the

native

VLAN

because

t

his
VLAN
i

s
used
i

nternally
on
the
ACE
appliance.
Port-channel
load

balancing

is

used

to

distribute

the

traffic

load

across

each

of

the

links

in

the

port
channel
to

ensure

efficient

utilization

of

each

link.

Port-channel

load

balancing

on

the

Catalyst

6500
Series
switch

can

use

MAC

addresses

or

IP

addresses,

Layer

4

port

numbers,

source

addresses,
destination
addresses,

or

bot

h

sour

ce

and

destination

addresses.

By

de

fault,

the

ACE

appliance

uses


Src-Dst-MAC
to

make

a

load

balancing

decision

(see

Ta

b

l

e


12-6 ).

We

recommend

that

you

use

the
source
and

destination

Layer

4

por

t

for

the

l

oad-balancing

decision.