Configuration manual

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
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) *
Te 0/10 (Up)
Te 0/11 (Up)
Dell#
The following example shows the port channel’s mode (L2 for Layer 2 and L3 for Layer 3 and L2L3 for a
Layer 2-port channel assigned to a routed VLAN), the status, and the number of interfaces belonging to
the port channel.
Example of the show interface port-channel Command
Dell>show interface port-channel 20
Port-channel 20 is up, line protocol is up
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