Link Agregation between Cisco 3650G and SMC8606T

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For anyone attempting to connect Cisco gear to SMC manageable switch gear using link agregation, it is necessary to use Cisco Etherchannel on your Cisco Interfaces.

To achieve this, set the channel-group mode to “on” at the interface level.  Typing "channel-group 2 mode ?" at the interface level shows the different modes that can be used:

Lab-3560G(config-if)#channel-group 2 mode ?
  active        Enable LACP unconditionally
  auto          Enable PAgP only if a PAgP device is detected
  desirable     Enable PAgP unconditionally
  on            Enable Etherchannel only
  passive       Enable LACP only if a LACP device is detected

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 channel-group 2 mode on
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
 channel-group 2 mode on

Use "sh etherchannel port-channel" at priviledged Exec to view port-channel status:

Lab-3560G#sh etherchannel port-channel
                Channel-group listing:
                ----------------------

Group: 2
----------
                Port-channels in the group:
                ---------------------------

Port-channel: Po2
------------

Age of the Port-channel   = 00d:03h:28m:08s
Logical slot/port   = 10/2          Number of ports = 2
GC                  = 0x00000000      HotStandBy port = null
Port state          = Port-channel Ag-Inuse
Protocol            =    -

Ports in the Port-channel:

Index   Load   Port     EC state        No of bits
------+------+------+------------------+-----------
  0     00     Gi0/1   On/FEC             0
  0     00     Gi0/2   On/FEC             0

Time since last port bundled:    00d:02h:48m:35s    Gi0/1
Time since last port Un-bundled: 00d:02h:48m:42s    Gi0/2

Now on the SMC side, they call link aggregation a “trunk”.  I have port 1 and 2 allocated to the “trunk” on the SMC side