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To add a physical interface to a port, use the following commands.
1. Add the interface to a port channel.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
channel-member interface
This command is applicable only in PMUX mode.
The interface variable is the physical interface type and slot/port information.
2. Double check that the interface was added to the port channel.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
show config
To view the port channel’s status and channel members in a tabular format, use the show interfaces
port-channel brief command in EXEC Privilege mode, as shown in the following example.
Example of the show interfaces port-channel brief Command
Dell#sh int port-channel brief
Codes: L - LACP Port-channel
O - OpenFlow Controller Port-channel
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
L 1 L2 up 00:00:19 Te 0/7 (Up)
Te 0/8 (Up)
L 128 L2 up 00:00:36 Te 0/9 (Up)
Te 0/10 (Up)
Te 0/11 (Up)
Dell#
The following example shows the port channel’s mode (L2 for Layer 2 and L3 for Layer 3 and L2L3 for a
Layer 2-port channel assigned to a routed VLAN), the status, and the number of interfaces belonging to
the port channel.
Example of the show interface port-channel Command
Dell#show interface port-channel 1
Port-channel 1 is down, line protocol is down
Hardware address is 00:1e:c9:de:04:9c, Current address is 00:1e:c9:de:04:9c
Interface index is 1107492865
Minimum number of links to bring Port-channel up is 1
Internet address is not set
Mode of IPv4 Address Assignment : NONE
DHCP Client-ID :001ec9de049c
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed auto
Members in this channel:
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 02:57:05
Queueing strategy: fifo
Input Statistics:
0 packets, 0 bytes
0 64-byte pkts, 0 over 64-byte pkts, 0 over 127-byte pkts
0 over 255-byte pkts, 0 over 511-byte pkts, 0 over 1023-byte pkts
0 Multicasts, 0 Broadcasts
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