Concept Guide

Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................392
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................393
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 394
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................395
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 395
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................395
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................396
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................396
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................396
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 397
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 397
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................397
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................398
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................399
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 400
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 400
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................401
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................402
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................402
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................402
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 403
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................403
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................404
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 405
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 406
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro....................................................................................................................406
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 406
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 407
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 408
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................408
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................410
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port................................................................................... 411
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................411
Example Scenarios................................................................................................................................................... 412
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics.................................................................................................413
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 413
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 414
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 414
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................416
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 417
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 418
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................418
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................419
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................420
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................420
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