Concept Guide

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 415
Conguring EIS.........................................................................................................................................................415
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 415
Conguring Management Interfaces..................................................................................................................... 415
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port.................................................................................417
S6100 — OIR............................................................................................................................................................418
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 418
Loopback Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................................419
Null Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................................419
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................419
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................420
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................420
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................420
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................421
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................421
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 421
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................422
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 423
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 424
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 424
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 425
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................426
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................426
Load-Balancing Method..........................................................................................................................................426
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 427
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 428
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................428
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................428
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 430
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 430
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 430
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 431
Split 40G Ports on a 16X40G QSFP+ Module............................................................................................................432
Splitting 100G Ports.......................................................................................................................................................433
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................433
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................434
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................434
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................436
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................437
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 438
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 438
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................439
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................440
CR4 Auto-Negotiation...................................................................................................................................................440
FEC Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 440
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