Concept Guide

Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 422
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................422
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 423
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................423
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................423
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................424
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................425
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 426
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 426
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................427
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 428
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................428
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 428
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 429
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................429
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................430
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................. 431
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 431
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.....................................................................................................................431
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................432
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 433
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 433
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 434
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................434
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 435
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 435
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................439
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................439
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 440
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................440
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................442
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 443
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 444
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 444
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................445
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................446
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................446
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 446
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................447
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................448
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 448
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.................................................................................................... 450
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 451
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 451
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 453
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