Users Guide

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 first channel
member in the port channel.
You can add any physical interface to a port channel if the interface configuration is minimal. 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:
A logical port channel interface cannot have flow control. Flow control can only be present on the
physical interfaces if they are part of a port channel.
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.
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
This command is applicable only in PMUX mode.
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
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.
Example of the show interfaces port-channel brief Command
Dell#show int port brief
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
1 L2 up 00:06:03 Te 0/7 (Up) *
Te 0/8 (Up)
2 L2 up 00:06:03 Te 0/9 (Up) *
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