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Chapter C Commands
channel-group (Ethernet)
To assign and configure a physical interface to an EtherChannel, use the channel-group command. To
remove the channel group configuration from the interface, use the no form of this command.
Syntax Description
number
force
mode
active
on
passive
Command Default None
Command Modes Interface configuration mode
Command History Release
5.2(1)N1(1)
OL-27880-02
channel-group number [force] [mode {active | on | passive}]
no channel-group [number]
Number of channel group. The number range is from 1 to 4096. Cisco
NX-OS creates the EtherChannel associated with this channel group if the
EtherChannel does not already exist.
(Optional) Specifies that the LAN port be forcefully added to the channel
group.
(Optional) Specifies the EtherChannel mode of the interface.
Specifies that when you enable the Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(LACP), this command enables LACP on the specified interface. The
interface is in an active negotiating state, in which the port initiates
negotiations with other ports by sending LACP packets.
This is the default channel mode. Specifies that all EtherChannels that are
not running LACP remain in this mode. If you attempt to change the channel
mode to active or passive before enabling LACP, the switch returns an error
message.
After you enable LACP globally, by using the feature lacp command, you
enable LACP on each channel by configuring the channel mode as either
active or passive. An interface in this mode does not initiate or respond to
LACP packets. When an LACP attempts to negotiate with an interface in the
on state, it does not receive any LACP packets and becomes an individual
link with that interface; it does not join the channel group.
The default mode is on.
Specifies that when you enable LACP, this command enables LACP only if
an LACP device is detected. The interface is in a passive negotiation state,
in which the port responds to LACP packets that it receives but does not
initiate LACP negotiation.
Modification
This command was introduced.
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