Users Guide

• For a 10-Gigabit Ethernet interface, enter the keyword
TenGigabitEthernet then the slot/port[/subport]
information.
• For a 40-Gigabit Ethernet interface, enter the keyword
fortyGigE then the slot/port information.
• For a Loopback interface, enter the keyword loopback
then a number from 0 to 16383.
• For a port channel interface, enter the keywords port-
channel
then a number.
• For a VLAN interface, enter the keyword vlan then a
number from 1 to 4094.
Defaults Not configured.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see
the relevant Dell Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S6010-ON and S4048T-ON.
9.10(0.0) Introduced on the S6100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S4810, S4820T, S6000, and Z9000 platforms.
Usage Information
You can enable the mechanism to configure the source or the originating interface
from which the packet (the device that generates the ICMP error messages) is received
by the switch to send the loopback address instead of its source IP address to be used
in the ICMP unreachable messages and in the traceroute command output. The
loopback address must be unique in a particular domain.
In network environments that contain a large number of devices, ranging up to
thousands of systems, and with each device configured for equal-cost multipath
(ECMP) links, you cannot effectively and optimally use the traceroute and ping
applications to examine the network reachablity and identify any broken links for
diagnostic purposes. In such cases, if the reply that is obtained from each hop on the
network path contains the IP address of the adjacent, neighboring interface from which
the packet is received, it is difficult to employ the ping and traceroute utilites. You can
enable the ICMP unreachable messages to contain the loopback address of the source
device instead of the previous hop's IP address to be able to easily and quickly identify
the device and devices along the path because the DNS server maps the loopback IP
address to the hostname and does not translate the IP address of every interface of the
switch to the hostname.
IPv4 Routing 994