Portchannel Cisco 1. Topology 2. Reset Cisco switch port/interface to default Switch# conf t Switch(config)# default interface Gi1/0/1 Switch(config)# exit 3. Etherchannel between SW-core3 & SW-core4 (LACP) SW-core3 int range e0/0-1 shutdown switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk channel-group 34 mode active no shutdown SW-core4 int range e0/0-1 shutdown switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk channel-group 34 mode active no shutdown 4. Check portchannel 34 Allow vlan on portchannel 34 interface Port-channel34 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10 5. Etherchannel port between Cisco switch & Mikrotik (static mode: ON) SW-core3 int range e1/0-1 shutdown switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk channel-group 1 mode on no shutdown Mikrotik 1 /interface bonding add name=Bonding-1 slaves=ether1,ether2 /interface vlan add interface=Bonding-1 mtu=1496 name=MNGT vlan-id=10 /ip address add address=172.30.11.17/24 interface=MNGT network=172.30.11.0