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Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................387
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 388
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................388
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................388
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................389
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................390
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 391
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 391
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 392
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................393
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................393
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................393
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 394
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................394
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................395
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 396
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 396
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 397
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................397
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................398
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 398
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................399
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................401
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................402
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 402
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................403
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................406
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................407
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................407
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................407
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................409
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 410
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control..........................................................................................................411
Enabling Pause Frames.............................................................................................................................................411
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................412
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................413
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................413
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................413
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 415
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................415
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 416
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally............................................................................................................417
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 418
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 419
Compressing Conguration Files..................................................................................................................................419
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