Why's this? I've configured FastEtherChannel without having to make the FEC
a trunk........ but this was between a 5500 and a 7500...... have you more
information for me to read indicating that you MUST make a FEC link a trunk
to work properly between switches?
As an aside: You don't always have to use trunking between switches to
share VLANs especially if you have only a few VLANs (2 or 3) i.e. you have a
2900 switch with 1/2 it's ports in VLAN 1 and 1/2 of them in VLAN2, you
could then connect that 2900 to another switch by simply connecting a cable,
one to a port for each VLAN 1 and VLAN2, and connect to the other switch (be
sure to setup the proper VLAN on the "destination" switch). This not only
allows the switches to "share" VLANs as they would with a trunk but you've
now gotten 400Mbps (200 on each link) between the switches for the info to
travel over instead of the 200 you would have over a single FastEthernet
trunk.
Mike W.
"Ken Mays" wrote in message
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> Another problem with this approach is that you can't do Fast EtherChannel
> between the switches if you're not using trunks. Also, this will inhibit
> VLAN propagation.
>
> It's better all around to use the correct Cisco technique for trunking
> switches.
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