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Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 397
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................397
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 398
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................398
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 398
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................399
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................400
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 401
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................401
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 402
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................403
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................403
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................403
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 404
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 404
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................404
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 406
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 406
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 406
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................407
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................408
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 408
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................409
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................410
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port................................................................................... 411
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................... 411
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................... 411
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 413
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 413
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 414
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................416
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 417
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.........................................................................................................418
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................418
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................419
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................420
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................420
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 420
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................422
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................422
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................423
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................424
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 426
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................426
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)...........................................................................................................428
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