Administrator Guide

Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................392
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................392
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 393
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................393
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................393
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................394
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................395
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 396
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 396
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................397
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................398
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................398
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................398
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 399
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 399
Bulk Conguration Examples................................................................................................................................. 400
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................401
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................401
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 402
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 402
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 403
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 403
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 404
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................405
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 405
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 405
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................409
Link Dampening............................................................................................................................................................. 409
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 410
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................410
Link Bundle Monitoring...................................................................................................................................................411
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 412
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................413
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................413
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................414
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................414
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................414
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 416
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................416
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 417
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally..................................................................................................... 418
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 419
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................420
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)........................................................................................................... 421
Conguring IPSec ..........................................................................................................................................................421
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