Cisco Systems N5KC5596TFA manual Configuring Port Channels, Creating a Port Channel

Configuring Port Channels

Configuring Port Channels

LACP-Enabled and Static Port Channel Differences

The following table provides a brief summary of major differences between port channels with LACP enabled and static port channels. For information about the maximum configuration limits, see the Verified Scalability document for your device.

Table 7: Port channels with LACP Enabled and Static Port channels
Configurations	Port Channels with LACP Enabled	Static Port Channels
Protocol applied	Enable globally.	Not applicable.
Channel mode of links	Can be either:	Can only be On.

•Active

•Passive

Configuring Port Channels

Creating a Port Channel

You can create a port channel before creating a channel group. Cisco NX-OS automatically creates the associated channel group.

Note If you want LACP-based port channels, you need to enable LACP.

Procedure

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1	switch# configure terminal	Enters configuration mode.
Step 2	switch(config)# interface port-channel	Specifies the port-channel interface to configure, and
	channel-number	enters the interface configuration mode. The range is
		from 1 to 4096. Cisco NX-OS automatically creates
		the channel group if it does not already exist.
Step 3	switch(config)# no interface	Removes the port channel and deletes the associated
	port-channelchannel-number	channel group.

This example shows how to create a port channel:

switch# configure terminal

switch (config)# interface port-channel 1

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