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S6100 — OIR...........................................................................................................................................................393
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 394
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................394
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 395
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................395
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................395
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................395
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................396
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 396
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................396
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................397
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................397
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................399
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 399
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......................................................................................................................401
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 401
Load-Balancing Method..........................................................................................................................................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
Split 40G Ports on a 16X40G QSFP+ Module............................................................................................................407
Splitting 100G Ports...................................................................................................................................................... 408
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................. 409
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 409
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 410
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................412
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 413
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 414
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................414
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................415
Port-Pipes....................................................................................................................................................................... 416
CR4 Auto-Negotiation................................................................................................................................................... 416
FEC Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................416
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................418
Syslog Warning Upon Connecting SFP28 Optics with QSA.....................................................................................419
Adjusting the Keepalive Timer.......................................................................................................................................419
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................420
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 420
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