User's Manual
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Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 40 Configuring EtherChannels and Link-State Tracking
Displaying EtherChannel, PAgP, and LACP Status
Configuring the LACP Port Priority
By default, all ports use the same port priority. If the local system has a lower value for the system 
priority and the system ID than the remote system, you can affect which of the hot-standby links become 
active first by changing the port priority of LACP EtherChannel ports to a lower value than the default. 
The hot-standby ports that have lower port numbers become active in the channel first. You can use the 
show etherchannel summary privileged EXEC command to see which ports are in the hot-standby 
mode (denoted with an H port-state flag).
Note If LACP is not able to aggregate all the ports that are compatible (for example, the remote system might 
have more restrictive hardware limitations), all the ports that cannot be actively included in the 
EtherChannel are put in the hot-standby state and are used only if one of the channeled ports fails.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the LACP port priority. This 
procedure is optional.
To return the LACP port priority to the default value, use the no lacp port-
priority interface 
configuration command.
Displaying EtherChannel, PAgP, and LACP Status
Command Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
interface interface-id Specify the port to be configured, and enter interface configuration 
mode.
Step 3
lacp port-priority priority Configure the LACP port priority. 
For p
riority, the range is 1 to 65535. The default is 32768. The lower the 
value, the more likely that the port will be used for LACP transmission.
Step 4
end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 5
show running-config
or 
show lacp [c
hannel-group-number] 
internal
Verify your entries.
Step 6
copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
Ta ble  40-4 Commands for Displaying EtherChannel, PAgP, and LACP Status 
Command Description
show etherchannel [c
hannel-group-number {detail | 
port | port-channel | protocol | summary}] {detail | 
load-balance | port | port-channel | protocol | 
summary}
Displays EtherChannel information in a brief, detailed, and 
o
ne-line summary form. Also displays the load-balance or 
frame-distribution scheme, port, port-channel, and protocol 
information.
show pagp [c
hannel-group-number] {counters | 
internal | neighbor}
Displays PAgP information such as traffic information, the 
internal PAgP configuration, and neighbor information.










