Concept Guide

Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 332
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 333
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 334
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................334
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 335
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................335
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 336
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................337
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................338
Designating a Multicast Router Interface................................................................................................................... 338
19 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................340
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................340
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................340
Interface Types................................................................................................................................................................341
View Basic Interface Information..................................................................................................................................341
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................343
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................343
Enabling Energy Ecient Ethernet..............................................................................................................................344
View EEE Information....................................................................................................................................................344
Clear EEE Counters.......................................................................................................................................................349
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................349
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................349
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 350
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode................................................................................................................. 350
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode................................................................................................................... 351
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode....................................................................................................................351
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode................................................................................................................... 351
Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface....................................................................................................... 352
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................353
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................353
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 354
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 354
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................354
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 354
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port............................................................................... 356
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 356
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 357
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 358
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................358
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 359
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................359
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 360
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