Trunk command, bigpipe

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A CLI command available on F5 BigIP platforms; used to create, modify, display or delete interface/link/port aggregation 'trunks', better known with most other platforms as channels.

Usage Syntax

bigpipe trunk [options]

Common options include;

• interfaces interface_number... -
• distribution -
• lacp (enable | disable) -
• lacp mode (active | passive) -
• lacp timeout (short | long) -
• stp (enable | disable) - specify if STP is enabled or disabled for the trunk interface (enabled by default)

Usage Examples

Usage Notes

A trunk interface is assigned to one or more VLANs as is normally the case for any interface, see the bigpipe vlan command article for more information.

An interface assigned to one or more VLANs cannot be added to a trunk. Remove the interface from any VLANs it is assigned to first.

Bigpipe Usage Notes

From v9.4, be aware of the administrative partition that is currently active; use the bigpipe shell partition command to display the current active partition name and the bigpipe shell partition name command to change partitions.

A full command manual can be displayed using the man command followed by the command name, for example: man pool or by suffixing the command name with the help keyword, for example; bigpipe pool help.

In most cases, the show keyword displays object status or statistics and the list keyword displays configuration. Remember, from v9.4, only objects in the currently active administrative partition will be displayed.

The bigpipe command can be abbreviated to just b (e.g. b help instead of bigpipe help.) Alternatively, (from v9.4,) you can use the bigpipe shell to enter commands without prefixing them with bigpipe.

Where curly or normal brackets {} or () or quotes "" or exclamation mark ! are required as part of a command and you are not using the bigpipe shell, they must be proceeded with a back slash \ to prevent the BASH shell from parsing them as system commands.

Don't forget to save your changes using the bigpipe save all command as necessary.

Typical Output

trunk       status bandw   pkts   pkts   pkts   pkts   bits   bits errors
                    Mb/s     in    out   drop   coll     in    out
External        UP  2000 218873   3345      5      0 154.8M 3.407M      0
Internal        UP  2000 183966   3016      3      0 137.3M 3.023M      0

Availability

v9.x onwards

Related Commands

Use the bigpipe vlan command to assign trunks to VLANs.

Command Equivalents

The Cisco command equivalent is the channel-group command

Related Articles

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