Users Guide

Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 392
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................393
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................393
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................393
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 394
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................394
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................394
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................395
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................396
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................397
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................397
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 398
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................399
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................399
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................399
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 400
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 400
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 401
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 402
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 403
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 403
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 403
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................404
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers...................................................................................................................................405
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................ 405
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 407
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................408
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 408
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 409
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 410
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 410
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................411
Conguration Example of Link Dampening............................................................................................................ 411
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................413
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 414
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 415
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................415
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................416
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................417
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................417
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................. 417
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 418
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................419
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 420
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 421
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