Users Guide

Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................. 441
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................442
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................442
Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 442
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................442
10/40 Gbps Interfaces in Port Channels...............................................................................................................443
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................443
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................443
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................444
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................446
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 446
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................447
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................447
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 447
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................448
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................448
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 449
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................449
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................449
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................451
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 451
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro..................................................................................................................... 451
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 451
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 452
Displaying Trac Statistics on HiGig Ports.................................................................................................................453
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 453
Monitoring HiGig Link Bundles.....................................................................................................................................454
Guidelines for Monitoring HiGig Link-Bundles .................................................................................................... 455
Enabling HiGig Link-Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................ 455
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 456
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 457
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port............................................................................457
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................458
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................459
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 459
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................459
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.........................................................................................................461
Threshold Settings................................................................................................................................................... 461
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 462
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................462
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................463
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................464
Provisioning Combo Ports............................................................................................................................................ 464
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................465
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 466
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