Users Guide

Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up

This chapter describes the Flex Hash and fast-boot enhancements.

Topics:

• load-balance ingress-port enable

• load-balance flexhash

• reload-type fastboot

• lacp fast-switchover

• encapsulation dot1q

load-balance ingress-port enable

Enable the Flex hash functionality. This utility is supported on the platform.

Syntax

load-balance ingress-port enable

To disable the Flex hash capability, use the no version of this command.

Default None

Command Modes CONFIGURATION mode

Command History

Version Description

9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S6010-ON and S4048T-ON.

9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.

9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S6000 platform.

9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.

Usage Information Flex hash uses the RTAG7 bins 2 and 3 (overlay bins). These bins must be enabled for

Flex hash to be configured. These bins contain the source module and source port

information. These bins are disabled by default in releases of Dell Networking OS earlier

than Release 9.3.0.0. The default behavior of disabling of these bins occurs because of

incorrect egress port information that would otherwise be displayed in the output of

the diagnostic show command of show ip flow.

As a result, when load balancing of RRoCE packets using Flex hash is enabled, the show

ip flow command is not functional. Similarly, when show ip flow command

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