Users Guide

Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 390
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................390
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 390
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 391
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................392
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 393
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 393
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 394
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................395
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 395
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................395
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 396
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 396
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................396
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 398
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 398
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 398
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 399
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................400
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers...................................................................................................................................400
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 401
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 402
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................403
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 403
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................403
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................. 405
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 405
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................405
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................407
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 407
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................408
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................408
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................409
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................409
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................410
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................. 411
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................412
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 412
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 414
Dynamic Counters..........................................................................................................................................................415
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 415
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)........................................................................................................... 417
Conguring IPSec ..........................................................................................................................................................417
23 IPv4 Routing.............................................................................................................................................419
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