Dell Force10 C150 Manual page 22

Deploying the Dell Force10 MXL into a Cisco Nexus Network Environment
N5K1 (conf-vpc-10)#peer-keepalive destination 172.25.188.61 source
172.25.188.60
N5K1 (conf-vpc-10)#ip arp synchronize
N5K1 (conf-vpc-10)#exit
N5K1 (conf)#interface port-channel 10
N5K1 (conf-if-po-10)#switchport mode trunk
N5K1 (conf-if-po-10)#vpc peer-link
N5K1 (conf-if-po-10)#exit
N5K1 (conf)#interface Ethernet 1/11-14
N5K1 (conf-if-range)#switchport mode trunk
N5K1 (conf-if-range)#channel-group 10 mode active
N5K1 (conf-if-range)#exit
N5K1 (conf)#exit
N5K1#
This same command set is now run on N5K2 (except with the keepalive destination and source IP
addresses reversed).
N5K2#configure
N5K2 (conf)#feature enable lacp
N5K2 (conf)#feature enable vpc
N5K2 (conf)#vpc domain 10
N5K2 (conf-vpc-10)#peer-keepalive destination 172.25.188.60 source
172.25.188.61
N5K2 (conf-vpc-10)#ip arp synchronize
N5K2 (conf-vpc-10)#exit
N5K2 (conf)#interface port-channel 10
N5K2 (conf-if-po-30)#switchport mode trunk
N5K2 (conf-if-po-30)#spanning-tree port type network
N5K2 (conf-if-po-30)#vpc peer-link
N5K2 (conf-if-po-30)#exit
N5K2 (conf)#interface Ethernet 1/11-12
N5K2 (conf-if-range)#switchport mode trunk
N5K2 (conf-if-range)#channel-group 10 mode active
N5K2 (conf-if-range)#exit
N5K2 (conf)#exit
N5K2#
In the example network the port-channels are configured to switchport trunk mode with the default
setting allowing all available VLANs onto them.
Configure the Nexus vPC Multi-chassis LAG
N5K1#configure
N5K1 (conf)#interface port-channel 20
N5K1 (conf-if-po-20)#switchport mode trunk
N5K1 (conf-if-po-20)#vpc 20
N5K1 (conf-if-po-20)#exit
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