Setup Guide

Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................413
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 414
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 414
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 415
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................416
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 417
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro..................................................................................................................... 417
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 417
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................418
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers....................................................................................................................................419
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 419
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................ 421
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................422
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................422
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................423
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................424
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................424
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 425
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................425
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................ 427
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 428
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 429
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 429
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................430
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................431
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................431
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................431
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................432
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................433
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 434
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 435
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 435
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 436
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................439
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................440
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................440
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................440
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................440
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................. 441
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes.............................................................................................442
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 443
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................443
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 443
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 444
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 444
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