Concept Guide

• Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel (optional)
• Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel (optional)
• Load Balancing Through Port Channels (optional)
Creating a Port Channel
You can create up to 128 port channels with up to 16 port members per group on the platform.
To congure a port channel, use the following commands.
1 Create a port channel.
CONFIGURATION mode
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 or congure an IP
address to place the port channel in Layer 3 mode, use the switchport command.
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.
NOTE
: Port channels can contain a mix of Ethernet interfaces, but Dell EMC Networking OS disables the interfaces that are not
the same speed of the rst channel member in the port channel (refer to 10/100/1000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels).
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
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 system supports jumbo frames by default (the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) is 1554 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, 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
Interfaces
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