Setup Guide

interface port-channel id-number
2 Ensure that the port channel is active.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
no shutdown
After you enable the port channel, you can place it in Layer 2 or Layer 3 mode. To place the port channel in Layer 2 mode use the
switchport command, or congure and IP address to place the port channel in Layer 3 mode.
NOTE: L3 is not supported on port extender (PE) ports or on port-channels when they have PE ports as members.
You can congure a port channel as you would a physical interface by enabling or conguring protocols or assigning access control lists.
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel
The physical interfaces in a port channel can be on any line card in the chassis, but must be the same physical type.
You can add any physical interface to a port channel if the interface conguration is minimal. You can congure only the following
commands on an interface if it is a member of a port channel:
• description
•
shutdown/no shutdown
• mtu
• ip mtu (if the interface is on a Jumbo-enabled by default)
NOTE
: A logical port channel interface cannot have ow control. Flow control can only be present on the physical interfaces if
they are part of a port channel.
NOTE: The switch supports jumbo frames by default (the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) is 9216 bytes). To congure
the MTU, use the mtu command from INTERFACE mode.
To view the interface’s conguration, enter INTERFACE mode for that interface and use the show config command or from EXEC
Privilege mode, use the
show running-config interface interface command.
When an interface is added to a port channel, the system recalculates the hash algorithm.
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
The interface variable is the physical interface type and slot/port information or port extender (PE) type and pe-id/unit-number/
port-id
information.
2 Double check that the interface was added to the port channel.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
show config
Examples of the show interfaces port-channel Commands
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.
Dell#show int port brief
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
1 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Te 1/6 (Up) *
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Interfaces