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Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................379
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................380
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................. 381
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 382
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 382
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................382
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 383
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 384
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................384
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 386
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 387
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................387
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................388
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................389
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................389
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 390
Conguration Example of Link Dampening.......................................................................................................... 390
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................392
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 393
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 394
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 394
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................395
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................396
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................396
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................396
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................397
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................398
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 399
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 400
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 400
Compressing Conguration Files..................................................................................................................................401
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................405
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................406
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 406
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses......................................................................................................................... 406
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................406
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................407
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................408
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................409
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 409
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 409
Enabling Directed Broadcast.........................................................................................................................................410
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................ 410
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names.............................................................................................................410
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains.....................................................................................411
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