Setup Guide

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 EMC 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.
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.
When more than one interface is added to a Layer 2-port channel, Dell EMC Networking OS selects one of the active interfaces in the port
channel to be the primary port. The primary port replies to ooding and sends protocol data units (PDUs). An asterisk in the show
interfaces port-channel brief command indicates the primary port.
As soon as a physical interface is added to a port channel, the properties of the port channel determine the properties of the physical
interface. The conguration and status of the port channel are also applied to the physical interfaces within the port channel. For example,
if the port channel is in Layer 2 mode, you cannot add an IP address or a static MAC address to an interface that is part of that port
channel. In the following example, interface 1/6 is part of port channel 5, which is in Layer 2 mode, and an error message appeared when an
IP address was congured.
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel
An interface can be a member of only one port channel. If the interface is a member of a port channel, remove it from the rst port channel
and then add it to the second port channel.
Each time you add or remove a channel member from a port channel, Dell EMC Networking OS recalculates the hash algorithm for the port
channel.
To reassign an interface to a new port channel, use the following commands.
1 Remove the interface from the rst port channel.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
no channel-member interface
2 Change to the second port channel INTERFACE mode.
INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
interface port-channel id number
Interfaces
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