Concept Guide

VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................ 374
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 375
Port Channel Denition and Standards................................................................................................................. 375
Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 376
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................376
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels...........................................................................................376
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 377
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................377
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 377
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 379
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 380
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 380
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel........................................................................................................... 381
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................381
Load Balancing through Port Channels....................................................................................................................... 381
Changing the Hash Algorithm.......................................................................................................................................381
Server Ports................................................................................................................................................................... 382
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong................................................................................................... 382
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 383
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................383
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................384
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 385
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 385
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 385
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 386
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 387
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................387
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports.............................................................................................................388
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface..............................................................................................................388
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................389
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................389
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 390
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 390
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames................................................................................................ 390
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................391
Congure MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................... 391
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................392
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................392
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................392
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................394
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 395
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.................................................................................................... 396
Dynamic Counters....................................................................................................................................................397
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing....................................................................................... 398
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 400
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