Configuring the PowerConnect 5316M external ports for Dynamic Link Aggregation

The following example shows the Dell PowerConnect 5316M Gigabit Ethernet switch command- line interface (CLI) commands for configuring the six external ports on the Gigabit Ethernet switch for LACP.

5316M(config)# interface range ethernet g11-16

5316M(config-if)# channel-group 1 mode auto

The first command sets the CLI mode to configure the six external Gigabit Ethernet ports (referred to in the command as g11-16, which stands for Gigabit Ethernet ports 11 through 16).

NOTE: All 6 ports do not have to be selected; a LAG can have 0-6 ports depending on the requirements of the network network (i.e the more ports in the LAG, the more bandwidth and more redundancy that is available). A LAG can even be configured without any member ports. When ports are added to the LAG, they will be set to the configuration of the LAG.

The second command aggregates the six ports into a LAG (referred to in the command as channel-group), which will use LACP (referred to in the command as mode auto). The ‘1’ for the channel-group number only has meaning within the switch and is used to differentiate up to eight unique channel-groups. For each LAG created, the user will need to choose a number between one and eight, for up to the maximum of eight groups. Only the external ports (11-16) can be part of a LAG

Configuring a Cisco IOS Gigabit Ethernet Switch for Dynamic Link Aggregation

The following example shows the Cisco IOS switch CLI commands for configuring six ports for LACP.

3750(config)# interface range GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 - 6

3750(config-if)# channel-protocol lacp

3750(config-if)# channel-group 1 mode active

The first command sets the CLI mode to configure six Gigabit Ethernet ports (referred to in the command as Gigabit Ethernet 1/0/1 – 6, which stands for Gigabit Ethernet ports 1 through 6). The second command sets ports to use LACP as the LAG protocol (and not PAgP). The third command aggregates the six ports into a LAG (referred to in the command as channel-group), which will use LACP (referred to in the command as mode active). The ‘1’ for the channel- group number only has meaning within the switch and is used to differentiate unique channel- groups

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5316M specifications

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