Users Guide

Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................ 391
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................391
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.................................................................................................... 392
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel............................................................................................... 393
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 394
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................394
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel..........................................................................................................395
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................396
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 396
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................396
Bulk Configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 397
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................397
Bulk Configuration Examples..................................................................................................................................397
Defining Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................399
Define the Interface Range....................................................................................................................................399
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro....................................................................................................................399
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces.......................................................................................................................400
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................401
Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 401
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................ 402
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports...........................................................................................................................403
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port................................................................................. 404
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................404
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 405
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................. 406
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................406
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................406
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 408
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................408
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................409
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface................................................................................................................... 409
Port-Pipes....................................................................................................................................................................... 410
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 410
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................. 411
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................412
View Advanced Interface Information......................................................................................................................... 413
Configuring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................413
Configuring the Traffic Sampling Size Globally.......................................................................................................... 415
Dynamic Counters..........................................................................................................................................................416
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................416
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)...........................................................................................................418
Configuring IPSec ..........................................................................................................................................................418
23 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................420
IP Addresses................................................................................................................................................................... 421
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