Users Guide

NOTE: This feature does not impact BMP mode. It always applies when reloading in Normal mode.
Important Points to Remember
• On a new switch running the Dell Networking OS version 9.2(0.0), with no saved startup conguration, the switch comes up with all
server ports as switch ports in No Shut state. When you congure STP, the switch brings up the uplink and saves the running
conguration to the startup-cong le. All the server ports without any specic conguration have the default conguration of Layer2
switch port and No Shut mode saved.
• On an existing switch with a saved startup conguration, running an older Dell Networking OS version, an upgrade to a new version
does not change the current behavior. This is because the start-up cong le in older Dell Networking OS versions have the default
conguration of Shut mode for all the server ports without any specic conguration. To enable this feature after upgrading a switch
with a saved startup conguration, delete the start-up cong le and reboot the switch. This allows all the server ports to come as
Layer2 switch ports in No Shut state.
• In a stacked conguration of switches, the behavior is similar to a standalone conguration. If a start-up cong le is detected at
bootup, the entire stack reboots using the saved conguration. If no start-up cong le is detected at restart, the entire logical switch,
including master unit, standby master, and any stack units restart with all server ports as Layer2 switch ports in No Shut mode.
• If a new stack unit is added to an existing stack, by default, the server side interfaces always start in Shut mode. If the startup
conguration is deleted after a stack unit was added to a stack and the stack is reloaded, on reboot the entire logical switch comes up
with all server ports as Layer2 switch ports in No Shut mode.
Bulk Conguration
Bulk conguration allows you to determine if interfaces are present for physical interfaces or congured for logical interfaces.
Interface Range
An interface range is a set of interfaces to which other commands may be applied and may be created if there is at least one valid interface
within the range.
Bulk conguration excludes from conguration any non-existing interfaces from an interface range. A default VLAN may be congured only
if the interface range being congured consists of only VLAN ports.
The interface range command allows you to create an interface range allowing other commands to be applied to that range of
interfaces.
The interface range prompt oers the interface (with slot and port information) for valid interfaces. The maximum size of an interface
range prompt is 32. If the prompt size exceeds this maximum, it displays (...) at the end of the output.
NOTE
: Non-existing interfaces are excluded from the interface range prompt.
NOTE: When creating an interface range, interfaces appear in the order they were entered and are not sorted.
To display all interfaces that have been validated under the interface range context, use the show range command in Interface Range
mode.
To display the running conguration only for interfaces that are part of interface range, use the show configuration command in
Interface Range mode.
You can avoid specifying spaces between the range of interfaces, separated by commas, that you congure by using the interface
range
command. For example, if you enter a list of interface ranges, such as interface range fo 2/0-1,te 10/0,gi 3/0,fa
0/0, this conguration is considered valid. The comma-separated list is not required to be separated by spaces in between the ranges. You
can associate multicast MAC or hardware addresses to an interface range and VLANs by using the mac-address-table static
multicast-mac-address vlan vlan-id output-range interface command.
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