Administrator Guide

Conguring Management Interfaces on the MXL Switch.........................................................................................349
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 351
Loopback Interfaces........................................................................................................................................................351
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................352
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 352
Port Channel Denition and Standards.....................................................................................................................352
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................. 352
Port Channel Implementation...................................................................................................................................353
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................353
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces...................................................................................................... 353
Creating a Port Channel...........................................................................................................................................354
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..........................................................................................................354
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel..................................................................................................... 356
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel......................................................................................356
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN................................................................................................... 357
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel............................................................................................................... 357
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.........................................................................................................................357
Server Ports...................................................................................................................................................................358
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong.........................................................................................................358
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................358
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 358
Bulk Conguration Examples....................................................................................................................................359
Dening Interface Range Macros...................................................................................................................................360
Dene the Interface Range...................................................................................................................................... 360
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro........................................................................................................................360
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces............................................................................................................................ 361
Maintenance Using TDR.......................................................................................................................................... 362
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports...............................................................................................................................362
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports.................................................................................................................363
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface..................................................................................................................363
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port......................................................................................... 364
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................ 364
Support for LM4 Optics...........................................................................................................................................365
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................365
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames.......................................................................................................370
Enabling Pause Frames.............................................................................................................................................370
Congure MTU Size on an Interface............................................................................................................................... 371
Port-Pipes...................................................................................................................................................................... 372
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces........................................................................................................................372
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................... 372
View Advanced Interface Information............................................................................................................................. 374
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...................................................................................................................375
Dynamic Counters.................................................................................................................................................... 376
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges........................................................................................................................377
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing...............................................................................................377
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