Concept Guide

Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 359
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................359
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................359
Load-Balancing Method..........................................................................................................................................359
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................360
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................361
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 361
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................362
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 363
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 363
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 363
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 364
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................365
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................. 365
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 366
Conguration Example of Link Dampening.......................................................................................................... 366
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................368
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 369
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 370
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 370
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................371
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................372
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 372
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................372
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................374
Provisioning Combo Ports............................................................................................................................................ 375
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................375
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................376
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................377
Dynamic Counters..........................................................................................................................................................378
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................379
20 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 380
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................380
21 IPv4 Routing.............................................................................................................................................382
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................383
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................383
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................383
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................383
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................384
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................385
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 386
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................386
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................386
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 386
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