Administrator Guide

Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 445
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................446
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................446
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................446
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................446
10/40 Gbps Interfaces in Port Channels...............................................................................................................447
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 447
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................447
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................448
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................450
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 450
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 451
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel........................................................................................................... 451
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................451
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................452
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................452
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 453
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................453
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................453
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................455
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 455
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 455
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 455
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................456
Displaying Trac Statistics on HiGig Ports.................................................................................................................457
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................457
Monitoring HiGig Link Bundles.....................................................................................................................................458
Guidelines for Monitoring HiGig Link-Bundles .....................................................................................................459
Enabling HiGig Link-Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................ 459
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 460
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................461
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.............................................................................461
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................462
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................463
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 463
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................463
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................465
Threshold Settings.................................................................................................................................................. 465
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................466
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................466
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 467
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 468
Provisioning Combo Ports............................................................................................................................................ 468
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................469
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................470
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