Technical White Paper

Table Of Contents

CLI Transition guide for Dell PowerConnect 5500 Series Switches

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Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................ 2

Changes to the Interface Naming Conventions ....................................................................... 2

VLAN Enhancements ...................................................................................................... 2

Shadow VLAN Configuration .......................................................................................... 2

Adding a port which is a VLAN member to a LAG ................................................................. 2

Configuring IP Address on a port which is a member of VLANs ................................................. 2

Enhanced functionality in Trunk mode ............................................................................. 3

Enhancement to IGMP Snooping ........................................................................................ 3

Additional ACL Options ................................................................................................... 3

Modification in Power-Over-Ethernet .................................................................................. 3

Enhancement to Stack Configuration .................................................................................. 3

Enhancement to QoS Ingress Rate Limit ............................................................................... 3

Updated Commands – Operational Modifications .................................................................... 4

Updated Commands – Command Mode Modifications ............................................................... 6

Updated Commands – Syntax Modifications ........................................................................... 8

Summary .................................................................................................................. 13

Tables

Table 1. Updated Commands with Operational Modifications ................................................ 4

Table 2. Updated Commands with Command Mode Modifications ........................................... 6

Table 3. Updated Commands with Syntax Modifications ....................................................... 8