Dell PowerConnect 5316M User Manual Page 1

August 2005 Link Aggregation Interoperability of the Dell™ PowerConnect™ 5316M with Cisco IOS or Cisco CatOS based Switches By Bruce Holmes

August 2005 Page 10 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cisco CatOS CLI allows the configuration of static LAGs via the LACP or the PAgP CLI commands.

August 2005 Page 11 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cat_6509(enable) show running-config Link aggregation with Cisco Fast Ethernet Switches Some cus

August 2005 Page 12 Dell Enterprise Product Group NOTE: This is different from the Cisco IOS and CatOS methods which would require that all the por

August 2005 Page 13 Dell Enterprise Product Group CLI will prevent adding internal ports to a LAG To check the configuration of the ports on the D

August 2005 Page 14 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cisco IOS based switches may have the ‘desirable’ and ‘passive’ mode options for the LAG setting.

August 2005 Page 15 Dell Enterprise Product Group 1IOS: Switch Ports Model SW Version SW Image * 1

August 2005 Page 2 Dell Enterprise Product Group Contents Introduction...

August 2005 Page 3 Dell Enterprise Product Group Introduction The Dell PowerConnect 5316M is a fully managed Layer 2 switch that helps organizati

August 2005 Page 4 Dell Enterprise Product Group Dell PowerConnect Cisco IOS/Cat OS Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) EtherChannel Fast EtherChann

August 2005 Page 5 Dell Enterprise Product Group If desired, any of the example configurations can be performed on the Dell PowerConnect 5316M via

August 2005 Page 6 Dell Enterprise Product Group Configuring the PowerConnect 5316M external ports for Dynamic Link Aggregation The following exa

August 2005 Page 7 Dell Enterprise Product Group Configuring a Cisco CatOS Gigabit Ethernet Switch for Dynamic Link Aggregation The following exam

August 2005 Page 8 Dell Enterprise Product Group Port-channel1 (Primary aggregator) Age of the Port-channel = 00d:01h:11m:34s Logical slot/por

August 2005 Page 9 Dell Enterprise Product Group The output of the command shows the ports 2/1 through 2/6 Status is ‘connected’ and a Channel mo