Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual page 486

You can add any physical interface to a port channel if the interface configuration is minimal. Only the
following commands can be configured on an interface if it is a member of a port channel:
•
description
•
shutdown
• mtu
•
ip mtu
The S-Series supports jumbo frames by default (the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) is
Note:
1554 bytes) You can configure the MTU using the
To view the interface's configuration, enter the INTERFACE mode for that interface and enter the
command or from the EXEC Privilege mode, enter the
config
command.
When an interface is added to a port channel, FTOS recalculates the hash algorithm.
To add a physical interface to a port channel, use these commands in the following sequence in the
INTERFACE mode of a port channel:
Step Command Syntax
1
channel-member
2
show config
To view the port channel's status and channel members in a tabular format, use the
port-channel brief
FTOS#show int port brief
LAG Mode
1 L2L3
2 L2L3
FTOS#
The example below displays 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.
FTOS>show interface port-channel 20
Port-channel 20 is up, line protocol is up
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| Interfaces
/
no shutdown
(if the interface is on a Jumbo-enabled by default.)
interface
command in the EXEC Privilege mode, as shown in the following example.
Status Uptime
up 00:06:03
up 00:06:03
command from INTERFACE mode.
mtu
show running-config interface
Command Mode Purpose
INTERFACE Add the interface to a port channel.
PORT-CHANNEL The
type and slot/port information.
INTERFACE Double check that the interface was added to
PORT-CHANNEL the port channel.
Ports
Gi 13/6 (Up) *
Gi 13/12 (Up)
Gi 13/7 (Up) *
Gi 13/8 (Up)
Gi 13/13 (Up)
Gi 13/14 (Up)
variable is the physical interface
interface
show interfaces
show
interface