Administrator Guide

Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 398
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................398
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 398
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 399
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................399
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 399
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................ 401
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 401
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 402
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 403
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................403
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................403
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................403
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................403
Interfaces in Port Channels....................................................................................................................................404
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................404
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 405
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................405
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 407
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................407
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 408
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 409
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................409
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 409
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................410
Bulk Conguration...........................................................................................................................................................411
Interface Range......................................................................................................................................................... 411
Bulk Conguration Examples................................................................................................................................... 411
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................413
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 413
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro..................................................................................................................... 413
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 413
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................414
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers....................................................................................................................................415
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................415
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port...................................................................................416
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 416
Example Scenarios....................................................................................................................................................417
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................420
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 421
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 421
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................421
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 423
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 423
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 424
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