Administrator Guide

Enabling Energy Efficient Ethernet
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) is an IEEE 802.3 az standard that reduces power consumptions on Ethernet ports. EEE stops
the transmission when there is no data to be transmitted and resumes the transmission at the arrival of new packets. You can
enable EEE only on one Gigabit and ten Gigabit native or optional module copper ports.
1. To enable EEE, use the eee command.
INTERFACE mode
Dell(conf)# interface gigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)# eee
2. To disable EEE, use the no eee command.
INTERFACE mode
Dell(conf)# interface gigabitethernet 1/1
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/1)# no eee
View EEE Information
To view the details of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), you can use the following show commands.
You have several options for viewing the details of EEE on interfaces.
List all the interfaces.
EXEC mode
EXEC PRIVILEGE mode
show interfaces
This command displays the status of each interface with various details along with the information whether EEE is enabled
on the interfaces..
List the status of eee on all the interfaces, on a specified port, or on a range of ports.
EXEC mode
EXEC PRIVILEGE mode
show interfaces eee
show interfaces interface-type slot/port eee
show interfaces interface-type slot/port-range eee
List the statistical information of eee on all the interfaces, on a specified port, or on a range of ports.
EXEC mode
EXEC PRIVILEGE mode
show interfaces eee statistics
show interfaces interface-type slot/port eee statistics
show interfaces interface-type slot/port-range eee statistics
List the hardware counters on a specified interface or a specified stack unit.
EXEC mode
EXEC PRIVILEGE mode
show hardware counters interface-type slot/port
show hardware stack-unit stack-unit-number unit unit-number counters
The following example shows the status information for all the interfaces.
S3048ON
Dell# show interfaces
GigabitEthernet 2/1 is down, line protocol is down
Hardware is DellForce10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:8b:3d:e7
Current address is 00:01:e8:8b:3d:e7
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Interfaces