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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 Gigabit Ethernet and 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces, but Dell 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
• 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: 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 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
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 1/6/1 (Up) *
Te 1/12/1 (Up)
2 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Te 1/7/1 (Up) *
Te 1/8/1 (Up)
Te 1/13/1 (Up)
Te 1/14/1 (Up)
Dell#
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