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Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 216
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................216
Capturing PDUs........................................................................................................................................................ 217
PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................218
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................218
10 Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP)................................................................................................................ 227
Prerequisites................................................................................................................................................................... 227
Restrictions.....................................................................................................................................................................227
Reconguring Jumpstart and Normal Modes............................................................................................................ 228
Jumpstart Mode............................................................................................................................................................ 229
DHCP Server/Conguration.................................................................................................................................. 229
MAC-Based IP Assignment.................................................................................................................................... 230
DHCP Retry Mechanism......................................................................................................................................... 231
File Server........................................................................................................................................................................231
Domain Name Server.................................................................................................................................................... 232
Switch Boot and Set-up Behavior in Jumpstart Mode............................................................................................. 232
11 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 234
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................234
Re-Allocating CAM for Ingress ACLs and QoS.......................................................................................................... 235
Re-Allocating CAM for Egress ACLs...........................................................................................................................236
Testing CAM Usage for QoS Policies.......................................................................................................................... 237
Displaying CAM-ACL Settings......................................................................................................................................237
Displaying CAM-ACL-Egress Settings.........................................................................................................................238
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................238
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 238
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 239
Troubleshoot CAM Proling....................................................................................................................................239
12 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 241
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 242
Conguring CoPP for Protocols...................................................................................................................................243
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues............................................................................................................................ 245
Show Commands...........................................................................................................................................................245
13 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 247
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................247
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 248
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................249
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................250
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow................................................................................................................... 251
Enabling Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................................................251
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................252
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................253
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................253
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