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You can add any physical interface to a port channel if the interface configuration is minimal. You can configure only the
following commands on an interface if it is a member of a port channel:
● description
● shutdown/no shutdown
● mtu
NOTE: A logical port channel interface cannot have flow control. Flow control can only be present on the physical
interfaces if they are part of a port channel.
NOTE: The system supports jumbo frames by default (the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) is 9416 bytes). To
configure the MTU, use the mtu command from INTERFACE mode.
To view the interface’s configuration, 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, Dell EMC Networking OS 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.
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.
DellEMC#show int port brief
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
1 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Twe 1/6 (Up) *
Tf 1/12 (Up)
2 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Tf 1/7 (Up) *
Tf 1/8 (Up)
Tf 1/13 (Up)
Tf 1/14 (Up)
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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.
DellEMC>show interface port-channel 20
Port-channel 20 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware address is 00:01:e8:01:46:fa
Internet address is 1.1.120.1/24
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 2000 Mbit
Members in this channel: Tf 1/10 Te 1/17
ARP type: ARPA, ARP timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:00:00
Queueing strategy: fifo
1212627 packets input, 1539872850 bytes
Input 1212448 IP Packets, 0 Vlans 0 MPLS
4857 64-byte pkts, 17570 over 64-byte pkts, 35209 over 127-byte pkts
69164 over 255-byte pkts, 143346 over 511-byte pkts, 942523 over 1023-byte pkts
Received 0 input symbol errors, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
42 CRC, 0 IP Checksum, 0 overrun, 0 discarded
2456590833 packets output, 203958235255 bytes, 0 underruns
Output 1640 Multicasts, 56612 Broadcasts, 2456532581 Unicasts
2456590654 IP Packets, 0 Vlans, 0 MPLS
0 throttles, 0 discarded
Rate info (interval 5 minutes):
Input 00.01Mbits/sec, 2 packets/sec
Output 81.60Mbits/sec, 133658 packets/sec
Time since last interface status change: 04:31:57
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