Setup Guide

Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................377
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.....................................................................................................................377
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................377
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................377
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 378
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................378
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 379
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................380
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 380
Example Scenarios................................................................................................................................................... 381
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 381
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................382
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................382
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................384
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 385
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 385
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................386
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................386
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................387
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 387
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 388
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 389
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................389
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 389
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.......................................................................................................... 390
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 391
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................392
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 392
Discard Counters........................................................................................................................................................... 393
Display discard counters......................................................................................................................................... 393
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................395
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................396
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................396
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses......................................................................................................................... 396
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................396
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................397
Adding description for IPv4 and IPv6 static routes.............................................................................................398
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................398
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 399
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................399
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................399
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 400
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 400
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 400
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................ 401
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