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FIGURE 20 Assigning ports to logical switches
A given port is always in one (and only one) logical switch. The following scenarios refer to the chassis after port assignment in Figure
20:
∙ If you assign P2 to logical switch 2, you cannot assign P2 to any other logical switch.
∙ If you want to remove a port from a logical switch, you cannot delete it from the logical switch, but must move it to a different
logical switch. For example, if you want to remove P4 from logical switch 3, you must assign it to a different logical switch:
logical switch 2, logical switch 4, or logical switch 1 (the default logical switch).
∙ If you assign a port to a logical switch, it is removed automatically from the logical switch it is currently in. If you assign P3 to
Logical switch 3, P3 is automatically removed from logical switch 2.
∙ If you do not assign a port to any logical switch, it remains in the default logical switch, as is the case with ports 0, 1, 7, and 8.
Refer to Adding and moving ports on a logical switch on page 289 for instructions for assigning and moving ports on logical switches.
A logical switch can have as many ports as are available in the chassis. In Figure 20, the chassis has 10 ports. You could assign all 10
ports to a single logical switch, such as logical switch 2; if you did this, however, no ports would be available for logical switches 3 and 4.
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