Jeff, We use Etherchannel on some of our servers, none of which are TSM servers (but clients use it) in our case, however. Your NIC's (or drivers more accurately) MUST support PAgP, for the channel to be automatically formed. This is a Cisco protocol that handles the negotiation of the channel and without it, you will be hard pressed to make the channel work! Intel NIC's support PAgP, and I *think* some 3Com ones do, but other than that, I am not sure... Contact me directly if you would like more info.
Chris Murphy IT Network Analyst Idaho Dept. of Lands Office: (208) 334-0293 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jeff G Kloek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gigabit Ether Channel Has anyone set up Gig Etherchannel to a Cisco Switch? We're about to test this with a P670 on AIX 5.2 with 4 (supported) Gig Ethernet cards. The question from our Wan group in planning the switch changes is, "Do we use PAgP or not?". I talked with IBM, who didn't recognize that protocol. This tells me we're not set up to specifically recognize it, but I'm still putting the question to the experts. I can't see how it would hurt, especially based on what the Cisco site says about it, that it helps in the automatic creation of fast Ethernet Links". Thanks!!
