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I have two Cisco switches that I would like to configure with two trunk links using Etherchannel. I would like to achieve 2 gigs of bandwidth between the switches.<br />
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Switch1 is a Cisco 2960G<br />
The ports I would like to use are G0/47 G0/48<br />
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Switch2 is a Cisco 3550<br />
The ports I would like to use are G0/1 G0/2<br />
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Both switches have default configuration. What is the best way to configure these switches to do this?
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I have two Cisco switches that I would like to configure with two trunk links using Etherchannel. I would like to achieve 2 gigs of bandwidth between the switches.

Switch1 is a Cisco 2960G
The ports I would like to use are G0/47 G0/48

Switch2 is a Cisco 3550
The ports I would like to use are G0/1 G0/2

Both switches have default configuration. What is the best way to configure these switches to do this?

Cisco Switches - configuring Etherchannel

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

Networking software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented on the machine's operating system that implements the networking functionality of the operating system. The best known frameworks are the TCP/IP model and the OSI model. Systems typically do not use a single protocol to handle a transmission. Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.[9] Some of the best known protocol suites include: IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25, AppleTalk and TCP/IP. Other protocols indirectly related to networking include the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and its related technologies, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Server (DNS) and other Internet protocols.