Users Guide

Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................377
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................377
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.....................................................................................................................377
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................378
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 379
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................379
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................ 381
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port...................................................................................381
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................382
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................382
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................383
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................384
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 384
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................384
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 386
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 386
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 387
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.................................................................................................................... 387
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................388
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................388
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 389
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 390
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................391
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 391
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 393
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................393
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 394
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 397
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................398
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................398
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................398
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................398
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 399
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................400
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages...................................................................................401
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface................................................................................................................401
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection.........................................................................................401
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 402
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................402
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................402
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 403
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................403
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 404
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 404
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................404
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