Administrator Guide

596 Port Characteristics
What Interface Types are Supported?
The physical ports on the switch include the out-of-band (OOB) interface
(Dell Networking N3000 and N4000 Series only) and Ethernet switch ports.
The OOB interface supports a limited set of features and is for switch
management only. The Ethernet switch ports support many logical features
that are often supported by logical interfaces. The switch supports the
following types of logical interfaces:
• Port-based VLANs — For more information, see "VLANs " on page 701 .
• VLAN routing interfaces — For more information, see "Routing
Interfaces
" on page 1141 .
• Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs), which are also called port-channels) —
For more information, see
"Link Aggregation " on page 979 .
• Tunnels — For more information, see "Routing Interfaces " on page 1141 .
• Loopback interfaces — For more information, see "Routing Interfaces " on
page 1141
.
The Dell Networking N-Series switches includes the following Power over
Ethernet (PoE) Plus models: the N1524P, N1548P, N2024P, N2048P, N3024P,
N3048P. For information about configuring PoE plus features for the ports,
see "Managing General System Settings " on page 389.
Dell Networking N3000 and N4000 Series switches have a single expansion
slot and can support the following module types:
• 10GBaseT module
•SFP+ module
•QSFP+ module (
Dell Networking N4000 Series only)
What is Interface Configuration Mode?
When you use the CLI to configure physical or logical characteristics for an
interface, you must enter Interface Configuration Mode for that interface. To
enter the mode, type the keyword interface followed by the interface type and
additional information to identify the interface, such as the interface number.