e shown in the same manner as any physical interface on an IOS device via the show interface command: Switch-1-IOS#sho int g3/1 GigabitEthernet5/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected) Hardware is C6k 1000Mb 802.3, address is 0011.7f1a.791c (bia 0011.7f1a.791c) Description: Link #1 in Po1 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off Clock mode is auto ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input 00:00:45, output 00:00:03, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters 30w6d Input queue: 0/2000/1054/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue: 0/40 (size/max) 5 minute input rate 924000 bits/sec, 187 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 86000 bits/sec, 70 packets/sec 190820216609 packets input, 207901078937384 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 48248427 broadcasts (1757046 multicast) 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 1054 overrun, 0 ignored 0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 129274163672 packets output, 80449383231904 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out Notice that the output does not mention the fact that the interface is a member of an EtherChannel, other than in the description. This reinforces the notion that all ports should be labeled with the description command. NX-OS example You create and manage port channels in NX-OS in almost the same way as in IOS: NX-7K-1-Cozy(config)# int e3/10-11 NX-7K-1-Cozy(config-if-range)# channel-group 10 Once the channel group is created, we can view it with the show interface command: NX-7K-1-Cozy(config-if-range)# sho int po 10 port-channel10 is down (No operational members) Hardware: Port-Channel, address: 0026.9807.