Deployment Guide

Table Of Contents
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...........................................................................369
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN........................................................................................... 370
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel......................................................................................................... 371
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................371
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 371
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................. 371
Bulk Configuration...........................................................................................................................................................372
Interface Range......................................................................................................................................................... 372
Bulk Configuration Examples..................................................................................................................................373
Defining Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................374
Define the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................375
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro................................................................................................................... 375
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces...................................................................................................................... 375
Maintenance Using TDR.......................................................................................................................................... 376
Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers.................................................................................................................................. 376
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................ 377
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.......................................................................................................................... 378
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.............................................................................. 379
Link Dampening................................................................................................................................................................ 381
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................384
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................385
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................385
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................386
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface.................................................................................................................. 386
Port-Pipes.........................................................................................................................................................................387
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................. 387
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.......................................................................................................... 388
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 389
View Advanced Interface Information....................................................................................................................... 389
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................390
Configuring the Traffic Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................391
Dynamic Counters...........................................................................................................................................................392
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 393
Compressing Configuration Files.................................................................................................................................393
Discard Counters............................................................................................................................................................ 395
Display discard counters..........................................................................................................................................396
Chapter 20: IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................... 398
IP Addresses.................................................................................................................................................................... 399
Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses....................................................................................................................... 399
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.....................................................................................................................399
Configuring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 400
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes...........................................................................................401
Configure Static Routes for the Management Interface...................................................................................... 402
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview......................................................................................................................... 402
Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..............................................................................403
Configuring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection.................................................................................... 403
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................403
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................ 404
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names.......................................................................................................... 404
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