Configuring etherchannel load-balancing – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Chapter 37 Configuring EtherChannels and Link-State Tracking

Configuring EtherChannels

This example shows how to configure an EtherChannel. It assigns two ports to channel 5 with the LACP
mode active:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# interface range gigabitethernet2/0/1 -2

Switch(config-if-range)# no ip address

Switch(config-if-range)# no switchport

Switch(config-if-range)# channel-group 5 mode active

Switch(config-if-range)# end

This example shows how to configure a cross-stack EtherChannel. It assigns two ports on stack
member 2 and one port on stack member 3 to channel 7 using LACP active mode:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# interface range gigabitethernet2/0/4 -5

Switch(config-if-range)# no ip address

Switch(config-if-range)# no switchport

Switch(config-if-range)# channel-group 7 mode active

Switch(config-if-range)# exit

Switch(config)# interface gigabitethernet3/0/3

Switch(config-if)# no ip address

Switch(config-if)# no switchport

Switch(config-if)# channel-group 7 mode active

Switch(config-if)# exit

Configuring EtherChannel Load-Balancing

This section describes how to configure EtherChannel load-balancing by using source-based or
destination-based forwarding methods. For more information, see the

“Load-Balancing and Forwarding

Methods” section on page 37-8

.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure EtherChannel load-balancing. This
procedure is optional.

Command

Purpose

Step 1

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

port-channel load-balance {dst-ip | dst-mac |
src-dst-ip | src-dst-mac | src-ip | src-mac}

Configure an EtherChannel load-balancing method.

The default is src-mac.

Select one of these load-distribution methods:

dst-ip—Load distribution is based on the destination-host IP
address.

dst-mac—Load distribution is based on the destination-host
MAC address of the incoming packet.

src-dst-ip—Load distribution is based on the
source-and-destination host-IP address.

src-dst-mac—Load distribution is based on the
source-and-destination host-MAC address.

src-ip—Load distribution is based on the source-host IP
address.

src-mac—Load distribution is based on the source-MAC
address of the incoming packet.

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