Administrator Guide

Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 378
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................378
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 378
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................379
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................380
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 380
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 381
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 383
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................383
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 384
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................384
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................385
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................386
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 386
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................386
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 388
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 388
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................389
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................389
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................390
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................390
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................391
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................392
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................393
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 393
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 395
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 395
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 396
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................399
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................400
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 400
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses......................................................................................................................... 400
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................400
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................. 401
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................402
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................403
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 403
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 403
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 404
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................404
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................404
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 405
Conguring DNS with Traceroute............................................................................................................................... 405
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 406
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 406
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