Administrator Guide

Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel
You can add any physical interface to a port channel if the interface configuration is minimal.
NOTE: Port channels can contain a mix of 100/1000/10000 Ethernet interfaces and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
interface, but the Dell Networking OS disables the interfaces that are not the same speed of the first
channel member in the port channel (refer to 100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels).
You can configure 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
: The MXL switch supports jumbo frames by default (the default maximum transmission unit [MTU]
is 1554 bytes) You can configure the MTU using the mtu command from INTERFACE mode.
To view the interface’s configuration, 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.
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
Example of the show interfaces port-channel brief Command
Example of the show interface port-channel Command
Example of Error Due to an Attempt to Configure an Interface that is Part of a Port Channel
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
Codes: L - LACP Port-channel
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
1 L3 down 00:00:00 Te 0/16 (Down)
Dell#
Interfaces 421