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Conguring a Dedicated Management Interface ................................................................................................445
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................446
Port Extender Interfaces...............................................................................................................................................447
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................447
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 448
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 448
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................449
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................449
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................449
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................449
10/40 Gbps Interfaces in Port Channels...............................................................................................................450
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................450
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 450
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel......................................................................................................451
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................453
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 453
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 454
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 454
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................454
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 455
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................455
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 456
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 456
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................456
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 458
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 458
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 458
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 458
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................459
Displaying Trac Statistics on HiGig Ports................................................................................................................ 460
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 460
Monitoring HiGig Link Bundles......................................................................................................................................461
Guidelines for Monitoring HiGig Link-Bundles .....................................................................................................462
Enabling HiGig Link-Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................462
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 463
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 464
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port............................................................................464
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................465
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................466
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 466
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................466
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 468
Threshold Settings...................................................................................................................................................468
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................469
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................469
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