Users Guide

• Bulk Conguration
• Dening Interface Range Macros
• Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
• Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics
• Link Dampening
• Link Bundle Monitoring
• Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control
• Congure the MTU Size on an Interface
• Port-Pipes
• Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
• View Advanced Interface Information
• Dynamic Counters
Interface Types
The following table describes dierent interface types.
Table 22. Dierent 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)
View Basic Interface Information
To view basic interface information, use the following command.
You have several options for viewing interface status and conguration parameters.
• Lists all congurable interfaces on the chassis.
EXEC mode
show interfaces
This command has options to display the interface status, IP and MAC addresses, and multiple counters for the amount and type of
trac passing through the interface.
If you congured a port channel interface, this command lists the interfaces congured in the port channel.
NOTE
: To end output from the system, such as the output from the show interfaces command, enter CTRL+C and
Dell Networking OS returns to the command prompt.
NOTE: The CLI output may be incorrectly displayed as 0 (zero) for the Rx/Tx power values. To obtain the correct power
information, perform a simple network management protocol (SNMP) query.
298 Interfaces