Users Guide

• Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State
• Enabling Energy Efficient Ethernet
• Enabling a Physical Interface
• Physical Interfaces
• Egress Interface Selection (EIS)
• Management Interfaces
• VLAN Interfaces
• Loopback Interfaces
• Null Interfaces
• Port Channel Interfaces
• Bulk Configuration
• Defining Interface Range Macros
• Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
• Link Dampening
• Link Bundle Monitoring
• Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control
• Configure the MTU Size on an Interface
• Port-Pipes
• Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
• Provisioning Combo Ports
• View Advanced Interface Information
• Dynamic Counters
Interface Types
The following table describes different interface types.
Table 24. Different Types of Interfaces
Interface Type Modes Possible Default Mode Requires Creation Default State
Physical L2, L3 Unset No Shutdown (disabled)
Management N/A N/A No No Shutdown
(enabled)
Loopback L3 L3 Yes No Shutdown
(enabled)
Null N/A N/A No Enabled
Port Channel L2, L3 L3 Yes Shutdown (disabled)
VLAN L2, L3 L2 Yes (except default)
L2 - Shutdown
(disabled)
L3 - No Shutdown
(enabled)
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