Deployment Guide

• long = For 10-meter and 15-meter cable lengths.
Defaults medium
Command Modes INTERFACE
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.2(0.0) Introduced on the M I/O Aggregator.
8.3.16.1 Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage Information This command only works on ports that the system recognizes as CX4 ports. The gures below shows an attempt
to congure an XFP port with the command after inserting a CX4 converter into the port.
For details about using XFP ports with CX4 cables, refer to your FN IOM switch hardware guide.
Example
(Unsuccessful)
Dell#show interfaces tengigabitethernet 0/26 | grep "XFP type"
Pluggable media present, XFP type is 10GBASE-CX4
Dell(conf-if-te-0/26)#cx4-cable-length short
% Error: Unsupported command.
Dell(conf-if-te-0/26)#cx4-cable-length medium
% Error: Unsupported command.
Dell(conf-if-te-0/26)#cx4-cable-length long
% Error: Unsupported command.
Dell(conf-if-te-0/26)#
Example
(Successful)
Dell#config
Dell(config)#interface tengigabitethernet 0/5
Dell(conf-if-0/5)#cx4-cable-length long
Dell(conf-if-0/5)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/4
no ip address
cx4-cable-length long
shutdown
Dell(conf-if-0/5)#exit
Dell(config)#
Related Commands show cong – displays the conguration of the selected interface.
dampening
Congure dampening on an interface.
Syntax
dampening [[[[half-life] [reuse-threshold]] [suppress-threshold]] [max-
suppress-time]]
To disable dampening, use the no dampening [[[[half-life] [reuse-threshold]] [suppress-
threshold]] [max-suppress-time]] command.
Interfaces 527