Reference Guide

10/100/1000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels........................................................................ 431
Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.......................................................................431
Creating a Port Channel............................................................................................................. 432
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.......................................................................... 432
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel......................................................................434
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel....................................................435
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN................................................................... 435
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel................................................................................436
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.........................................................................................437
Load Balancing Through Port Channels.................................................................................... 437
Load-Balancing on the S- Series................................................................................................437
Changing the Hash Algorithm....................................................................................................438
Bulk Configuration............................................................................................................................439
Interface Range...........................................................................................................................439
Bulk Configuration Examples.....................................................................................................440
Defining Interface Range Macros.....................................................................................................441
Define the Interface Range.........................................................................................................441
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro........................................................................................ 442
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces............................................................................................442
Maintenance Using TDR............................................................................................................. 443
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.................................................................................................. 444
Link Dampening................................................................................................................................445
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................. 445
Enabling Link Dampening...........................................................................................................445
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................... 447
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.............................................................................. 447
Threshold Settings......................................................................................................................448
Enabling Pause Frames...............................................................................................................448
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface.........................................................................................449
Port-Pipes......................................................................................................................................... 450
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces........................................................................................450
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces..................................................... 451
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................... 452
View Advanced Interface Information............................................................................................. 453
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size................................................................................... 454
Dynamic Counters............................................................................................................................455
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................... 455
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges........................................................................................456
Compressing Configuration Files.....................................................................................................456
23 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)................................................................. 461
Configuring IPSec ............................................................................................................................462