Concept Guide

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 420
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 420
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................420
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................420
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................422
S6100 — OIR........................................................................................................................................................... 423
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................423
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 424
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 424
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 424
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................425
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................425
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................425
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 426
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................426
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................426
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................427
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................428
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 429
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 429
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 430
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................431
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 431
Load-Balancing Method...........................................................................................................................................431
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 432
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 433
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................433
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................433
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 435
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 435
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 435
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 436
Split 40G Ports on a 16X40G QSFP+ Module............................................................................................................437
Splitting 100G Ports...................................................................................................................................................... 438
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................438
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 439
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................439
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................441
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 442
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 443
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 443
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................444
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................445
CR4 Auto-Negotiation...................................................................................................................................................445
FEC Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 445
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