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Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN...........................................................................................369
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.........................................................................................................370
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.................................................................................................................... 370
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 371
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................. 371
Bulk Configuration...........................................................................................................................................................372
Interface Range......................................................................................................................................................... 372
Bulk Configuration Examples..................................................................................................................................372
Defining Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................374
Define the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................374
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro....................................................................................................................374
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces...................................................................................................................... 375
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................375
Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers.................................................................................................................................. 376
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................376
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.......................................................................................................................... 378
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.............................................................................. 379
Link Dampening................................................................................................................................................................ 381
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................383
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 384
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................384
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................385
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface.................................................................................................................. 385
Port-Pipes.........................................................................................................................................................................386
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................. 386
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces...........................................................................................................387
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 388
View Advanced Interface Information....................................................................................................................... 388
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................389
Configuring the Traffic Sampling Size Globally....................................................................................................... 390
Dynamic Counters........................................................................................................................................................... 391
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 392
Compressing Configuration Files.................................................................................................................................392
Discard Counters.............................................................................................................................................................394
Display discard counters......................................................................................................................................... 395
Chapter 20: IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................... 397
IP Addresses.....................................................................................................................................................................398
Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses........................................................................................................................398
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.....................................................................................................................398
Configuring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 399
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes..........................................................................................400
Configure Static Routes for the Management Interface....................................................................................... 401
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 401
Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..............................................................................402
Configuring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection.................................................................................... 402
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................402
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................ 403
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names.......................................................................................................... 403
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains............................................................................... 404
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