Reference Guide

View Basic Interface Information
To view basic interface information, use the following command.
You have several options for viewing interface status and configuration parameters.
● Lists all configurable interfaces on the chassis.
EXEC mode
show interfaces
This command has options to display the interface status, IP and MAC addresses, and multiple counters for the amount and
type of traffic passing through the interface.
If you configured a port channel interface, this command lists the interfaces configured in the port channel.
NOTE: To end output from the system, such as the output from the show interfaces command, enter CTRL+C.
The system returns you to the command prompt.
NOTE: The CLI output may be incorrectly displayed as 0 (zero) for the Rx/Tx power values. To obtain the correct
power information, perform a simple network management protocol (SNMP) query.
The following example shows the configuration and status information for one interface.
Dell#show interfaces tengigabitethernet 1/0
TenGigabitEthernet 1/0 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is Dell Force10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:05:f3:6a
Current address is 00:01:e8:05:f3:6a
Pluggable media present, XFP type is 10GBASE-LR.
Medium is MultiRate, Wavelength is 1310nm
XFP receive power reading is -3.7685
Interface index is 67436603
Internet address is 65.113.24.238/28
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 10000 Mbit, Mode full duplex, Master
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:09:54
Queueing strategy: fifo
Input Statistics:
0 packets, 0 bytes
0 Vlans
0 64-byte pkts, 0 over 64-byte pkts, 0 over 127-byte pkts
0 over 255-byte pkts, 0 over 511-byte pkts, 0 over 1023-byte pkts
0 Multicasts, 0 Broadcasts
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 CRC, 0 overrun, 0 discarded
Output Statistics:
3 packets, 192 bytes, 0 underruns
3 64-byte pkts, 0 over 64-byte pkts, 0 over 127-byte pkts
0 over 255-byte pkts, 0 over 511-byte pkts, 0 over 1023-byte pkts
0 Multicasts, 3 Broadcasts, 0 Unicasts
0 Vlans, 0 throttles, 0 discarded, 0 collisions
Rate info (interval 299 seconds):
Input 00.00 Mbits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% of line-rate
Output 00.00 Mbits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% of line-rate
Time since last interface status change: 00:00:31
Dell#
To view which interfaces are enabled for Layer 3 data transmission, use the show ip interfaces brief command in
EXEC Privilege mode. In the following example, TengigabitEthernet interface 1/5 is in Layer 3 mode because an IP address has
been assigned to it and the interface’s status is operationally up.
Dell#show ip interface brief
Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
TengigabitEthernet 1/0 unassigned NO Manual administratively down down
TengigabitEthernet 1/1 unassigned NO Manual administratively down down
TengigabitEthernet 1/2 unassigned YES Manual up up
TengigabitEthernet 1/3 unassigned YES Manual up up
TengigabitEthernet 1/4 unassigned YES Manual up up
TengigabitEthernet 1/5 10.10.10.1 YES Manual up up
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