Users Guide

Enabling Link Dampening
To enable link dampening, use the following command.
• Enable link dampening.
INTERFACE mode
dampening
Examples of the show interfaces dampening Commands
To view the link dampening conguration on an interface, use the show config command.
R1(conf-if-te-1/1)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1
ip address 10.10.19.1/24
dampening 1 2 3 4
no shutdown
To view dampening information on all or specic dampened interfaces, use the show interfaces dampening command from
EXEC Privilege mode.
Dell# show interfaces dampening
InterfaceStateFlapsPenaltyHalf-LifeReuseSuppressMax-Sup
Te 1/1Up005750250020
Te 1/2Up21200205001500300
Te 1/2Down4850306002000120
To view a dampening summary for the entire system, use the show interfaces dampening summary command from EXEC
Privilege mode.
Dell# show interfaces dampening summary
20 interfaces are configured with dampening. 3 interfaces are currently suppressed.
Following interfaces are currently suppressed:
Te 1/2
Te 3/1
Te 4/2
Dell#
Clearing Dampening Counters
To clear dampening counters and accumulated penalties, use the following command.
• Clear dampening counters.
clear dampening
Example of the clear dampening Command
Dell# clear dampening interface Te 1/1
Dell# show interfaces dampening TenGigabitEthernet1/1
InterfaceStateFlapsPenaltyHalf-LifeReuseSuppressMax-Sup
Te 1/1Up00205001500300
Link Dampening Support for XML
View the output of the following show commands in XML by adding | display xml to the end of the command.
• show interfaces dampening
• show interfaces dampening summary
• show interfaces interface x/y
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Interfaces