Concept Guide

Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 407
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 408
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 408
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................409
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................410
Dene the Interface Range......................................................................................................................................411
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro......................................................................................................................411
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces.........................................................................................................................411
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................412
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers....................................................................................................................................413
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 413
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................415
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port...................................................................................416
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 416
Example Scenarios....................................................................................................................................................417
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics.................................................................................................418
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 418
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 419
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 419
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................421
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 422
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 423
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 423
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................424
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................425
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................425
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 425
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................426
View Advanced Interface Information......................................................................................................................... 427
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 428
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 429
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................429
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 430
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................433
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................434
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................434
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................434
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................434
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 435
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................436
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages.................................................................................. 437
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface................................................................................................................437
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection.........................................................................................437
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 438
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................438
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