Hi, my name is Chuck and I'm from the Dell Networking team. Today I'm going to go over how to set up port-channel interfaces on OS10-based switches from the CLI. This information is specific to code version 10.5.3 and later. Port-channel includes three configuration modes: on, active, and passive. And as you can see here, "on" sets the port-channel to static mode. The interface acts as a member of the static port-channel and does not run LACP on the links. You have your active mode—that's an active negotiation state—and this mode is running LACP. A port in this mode can pair with another port-channel or another link in active or passive mode.
Finally, you have your passive mode. This sets the interface to an inactive negotiation state. LACP is running on the link, and a port in passive mode responds to negotiation requests from an active mode link. You can't have a passive to a passive—it has to be a passive to an active. And another note: you cannot add static and dynamic members to the same port-channel. For today's example, we're going to use ports 33 and 34 to connect to another OS10-based switch's port 33 and 34 via an active port-channel configuration mode.
Just note all ports are in their default configuration. First thing we want to do is open a command line to the switch and from the privileged EXEC mode, go into the global configuration mode. From there, we want to go into our interface port-channel 1 to create the port-channel. After we have the port-channel created, then we want to exit. Then go into the ports that we're going to put into the port-channel. So for this example, it's going to be port 33 and 34. So we'll use our interface range Ethernet command to select port 33 and 34 on this switch. You can also do the ports individually, but we use the range command in this example. From there, we want to use our channel-group 1 mode active. This puts the port into our active mode port-channel running LACP. Once we're finished with that, we want to end.
Then we want to do the same on our secondary switch: go into the config mode. Then we want to create our port-channel interface port-channel 1. So we'll exit and want to select ports 33 and 34 and go into interface range Ethernet 33 and 34. You want to do our channel-group 1 mode active command to put the port-channel in active, running LACP. Once that's done, we want to exit. And then on both switches, we want to go ahead and check our port-channel status using the show interface port-channel summary command. And from there, we can see that 33 and 34 are up.
The lag 1 is up, status is up. We also want to check on the other switch as well: show interfaces port-channel summary. And finally, we want to go ahead and save those changes once we're done verifying. Thank you for watching.