Administrator Guide

14 Dell Campus Networking Interoperability with Cisco Catalyst 1.1 | version 1.1
C6504(config-if-range)#end
C6504#show vlan brief
VLAN Name Status Ports
---- -------------------------------- --------- -----------------------------
1 default active
30 Management active Gi4/1, Gi4/2
31 Public active Gi4/3, Gi4/4, Gi4/5, Gi4/6
32 VLAN0032 active
33 Guest active Gi4/7, Gi4/8, Gi4/9, Gi4/10
34 VLAN0034 active
35 VLAN0035 active
Repeat the commands above to assign ports to each VLAN.
2.3 Link Aggregation Groups
Link Aggregation Group (LAG) enables the bonding of up to eight physical Ethernet links into a single logical
link with an aggregate bandwidth of all the physical links used. For example, if a LAG is composed of four 1
Gbps links, it would have the cumulative total bandwidth of 4 Gbps. However, the default behavior of a port
channel is to assign one of the physical links to each packet that transverses the LAG. Figure 6 shows a
simple LAG consisting of two physical links.
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Link Aggregation Group
Note: The terms LAG, port-channel, and channel-group all have the same meaning. Cisco references this
technology as Etherchannel. Though all four are often used in conversation and documentation, port-
channel is used exclusively in the command for creating a LAG, and channel-group is used exclusively as