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.
Dell#show int port brief
LAG Mode Status Uptime Ports
1 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Te 13/6 (Up) *
Te 13/12 (Up)
2 L2L3 up 00:06:03 Te 13/7 (Up) *
Te 13/8 (Up)
Te 13/13 (Up)
Te 13/14 (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.
Dell>show interface port-channel 20
Port-channel 20 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware address is 00:01:e8:01:46:fa
Internet address is 1.1.120.1/24
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 2000 Mbit
Members in this channel: Te 9/10 Te 9/17
ARP type: ARPA, ARP timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:00:00
Queueing strategy: fifo
1212627 packets input, 1539872850 bytes
Input 1212448 IP Packets, 0 Vlans 0 MPLS
4857 64-byte pkts, 17570 over 64-byte pkts, 35209 over 127-byte pkts
69164 over 255-byte pkts, 143346 over 511-byte pkts, 942523 over 1023-byte
pkts
Received 0 input symbol errors, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
42 CRC, 0 IP Checksum, 0 overrun, 0 discarded
2456590833 packets output, 203958235255 bytes, 0 underruns
Output 1640 Multicasts, 56612 Broadcasts, 2456532581 Unicasts
2456590654 IP Packets, 0 Vlans, 0 MPLS
0 throttles, 0 discarded
Rate info (interval 5 minutes):
Input 00.01Mbits/sec, 2 packets/sec
Output 81.60Mbits/sec, 133658 packets/sec
Time since last interface status change: 04:31:57
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Interfaces
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