Administrator Guide

Port Channel Benefits................................................................................................................................................. 351
Port Channel Implementation.....................................................................................................................................351
Interfaces in Port Channels........................................................................................................................................352
Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces....................................................................................................352
Creating a Port Channel............................................................................................................................................. 352
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel........................................................................................................353
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................... 354
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel..................................................................................355
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.................................................................................................355
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel..............................................................................................................356
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.........................................................................................................................356
Load Balancing Through Port Channels...................................................................................................................356
Changing the Hash Algorithm....................................................................................................................................357
Bulk Configuration.............................................................................................................................................................358
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................... 358
Bulk Configuration Examples..................................................................................................................................... 358
Defining Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................... 360
Define the Interface Range........................................................................................................................................360
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro........................................................................................................................360
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces...........................................................................................................................360
Maintenance Using TDR............................................................................................................................................. 361
Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers...................................................................................................................................... 362
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload................................................................................................................................ 362
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.............................................................................................................................. 364
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................... 364
Configuring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics...................................................................................................366
Link Dampening................................................................................................................................................................. 367
Enabling Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................369
Link Bundle Monitoring.....................................................................................................................................................370
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control............................................................................................................370
Enabling Pause Frames................................................................................................................................................371
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................ 371
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................... 372
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................... 372
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................372
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................... 373
View Advanced Interface Information............................................................................................................................ 374
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size..................................................................................................................375
Dynamic Counters.............................................................................................................................................................376
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................... 376
Compressing Configuration Files..................................................................................................................................... 377
20 IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................... 379
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................... 380
Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses............................................................................................................................ 380
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface..........................................................................................................................380
Configuring Static Routes.................................................................................................................................................381
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes................................................................................................ 382
Configure Static Routes for the Management Interface.............................................................................................382
Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................... 383
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