Deployment Guide

Port Channel Benefits...............................................................................................................................................371
Port Channel Implementation..................................................................................................................................371
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 372
Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..............................................................................................372
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 372
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.................................................................................................. 373
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel..............................................................................................374
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel........................................................................... 375
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN........................................................................................... 375
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.........................................................................................................376
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.................................................................................................................... 376
Load Balancing Through Port Channels...............................................................................................................376
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................377
Bulk Configuration...........................................................................................................................................................378
Interface Range......................................................................................................................................................... 378
Bulk Configuration Examples..................................................................................................................................378
Defining Interface Range Macros............................................................................................................................... 380
Define the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 380
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro................................................................................................................... 380
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces......................................................................................................................380
Maintenance Using TDR...........................................................................................................................................381
Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers.................................................................................................................................. 382
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................382
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.......................................................................................................................... 384
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..............................................................................385
Configuring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics.............................................................................................387
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................... 387
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................ 390
Link Bundle Monitoring...................................................................................................................................................391
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control...................................................................................................... 391
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................392
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface.................................................................................................................. 392
Port-Pipes.........................................................................................................................................................................393
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................. 393
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.......................................................................................................... 394
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 395
View Advanced Interface Information....................................................................................................................... 396
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................396
Dynamic Counters...........................................................................................................................................................397
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 398
Compressing Configuration Files.................................................................................................................................398
Chapter 20: IPv4 Routing...........................................................................................................401
IP Addresses.....................................................................................................................................................................402
Configuration Tasks for IP Addresses........................................................................................................................402
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.....................................................................................................................402
Configuring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................403
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes..........................................................................................404
Configure Static Routes for the Management Interface...................................................................................... 405
Using the Configured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..............................................................................405
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