Users Guide

For the port channel to go down operationally on both sides when the minimum links criteria is not met, you must configure
minimum links on both sides of the port channel.
Enter the number of links in a LAG that must be in oper up status in PORT-CHANNEL mode, from 1 to 32, default 1.
minimum-links number
Configure minimum operationally up links
OS10(config)# interface port-channel 1
OS10(conf-if-po-1)# minimum-links 5
Assign Port Channel IP Address
You can assign an IP address to a port channel and use port channels in L3 routing protocols.
● Configure an IP address and mask on the interface in INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode.
ip address ip-address/mask [secondary-ip-address]
○ ip-address/mask — Specify an IP address in dotted-decimal A.B.C.D format and the mask.
○ secondary-ip-address — Specify a secondary IP address in dotted-decimal A.B.C.D format, which acts as the
interface’s backup IP address.
Assign Port Channel IP Address
OS10# configure terminal
OS10(config)# interface port-channel 1
OS10(conf-if-po-1)# ip address 1.1.1.1/24
OS10(conf-if-po-1)#
Remove or disable port-channel
You can delete or disable a port-channel.
1. Delete a port-channel in CONFIGURATION mode.
no interface port-channel channel-number
2. Disable a port-channel to place all interfaces within the port-channel operationally down in CONFIGURATION mode.
shutdown
Delete port-channel
OS10(config)# interface port-channel 10
OS10(conf-if-po-10)# no interface port-channel 10
Load balance traffic
Use hashing to load balance traffic across member interfaces of a port-channel. Load balancing uses source and destination
packet information to distribute traffic over multiple interfaces when transferring data to a destination.
For packets without an L3 header, OS10 automatically uses the load-balancing mac—selection destination-mac
command for hash algorithms by default.
When you configure an IP and MAC hashing scheme at the same time, the MAC hashing scheme takes precedence over the IP
hashing scheme.
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