Users Guide

If a port is over-subscribed, Ethernet Pause Frame ow control does not ensure no-loss behavior.
Restriction: Ethernet Pause Frame ow control is not supported if PFC is enabled on an interface.
Control how the system responds to and generates 802.3x pause frames on Ethernet interfaces. The default is rx o tx o.
INTERFACE mode. flowcontrol rx [off | on] tx [off | on]
Where:
rx on: Processes the received ow control frames on this port.
rx off: Ignores the received ow control frames on this port.
tx on: Sends control frames from this port to the connected device when a higher rate of trac is received.
tx off: Flow control frames are not sent from this port to the connected device when a higher rate of trac is received.
Changes in the ow-control values may not be reected automatically in the show interface output. To display the change,
apply the new ow-control setting, shutdown the interface using the shutdown command, enable the interface using the no
shutdown command, and use the show interface command to verify the changes.
Enabling Pause Frames
Enable Ethernet pause frames ow control on all ports on a chassis or a line card. If not, the system may exhibit unpredictable
behavior.
NOTE: Changes in the ow-control values may not be reected automatically in the show interface output. As a
workaround, apply the new settings, execute
shut then no shut on the interface, and then check the running-cong
of the port.
NOTE: If you disable rx flow control, Dell Networking recommends rebooting the system.
The ow control sender and receiver must be on the same port-pipe. Flow control is not supported across dierent port-pipes.
To enable pause frames, use the following command.
• Control how the system responds to and generates 802.3x pause frames on the Ethernet ports.
INTERFACE mode
flowcontrol rx [off | on] tx [off | on] [negotiate]
– rx on: enter the keywords rx on to process the received ow control frames on this port.
– rx off: enter the keywords rx off to ignore the received ow control frames on this port.
– tx on: enter the keywords tx on to send control frames from this port to the connected device when a higher rate of
trac is received.
– tx off: enter the keywords tx off so that ow control frames are not sent from this port to the connected device when
a higher rate of trac is received.
– negotiate: enable pause-negotiation with the egress port of the peer device. If the negotiate command is not used,
pause-negotiation is disabled. 40 gigabit Ethernet interfaces do not support pause-negotiation.
– threshold: when you congure tx on, you can set the threshold values for:
* Number of ow-control packet pointers: the range is from 1 to 2047 (default = 75).
* Flow-control buer threshold in KB: the range is from 1 to 2013 (default = 49KB).
* Flow-control discard threshold in KB: the range is from 1 to 2013 (default= 75KB)
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