Concept Guide

Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 424
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................424
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 425
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................425
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................426
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................426
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................428
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 428
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 429
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 430
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................430
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................430
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................431
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 431
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 431
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................432
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 433
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 433
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 434
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................434
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................435
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 435
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................436
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................437
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................438
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 439
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................439
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................440
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 441
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 441
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................443
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 444
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 445
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................445
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................446
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................447
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 447
Setting the speed to 10/100/1000 Mbps on SFP-1G-T transceiver.................................................................. 447
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 447
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................449
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................449
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 450
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 451
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 453
Clearing Interface Counters................................................................................................................................... 453
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