Users Guide

• Interface Types
• View Basic Interface Information
• Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State
• Enabling a Physical Interface
• Physical Interfaces
• Egress Interface Selection (EIS)
• Management Interfaces
• VLAN Interfaces
• Loopback Interfaces
• Null Interfaces
• Port Channel Interfaces
• Bulk Configuration
• Defining Interface Range Macros
• Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
• Splitting 40G Ports without Reload
• Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports
• Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port
• Link Dampening
• Link Bundle Monitoring
• Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control
• Configure the MTU Size on an Interface
• Port-Pipes
• Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces
• View Advanced Interface Information
• Dynamic Counters
• Compressing Configuration Files
Interface Types
The following table describes different interface types.
Table 37. Different Types of Interfaces
Interface Type Modes Possible Default Mode Requires Creation Default State
Physical L2, L3 Unset No Shutdown (disabled)
Management N/A N/A No No Shutdown
(enabled)
Loopback L3 L3 Yes No Shutdown
(enabled)
Null N/A N/A No Enabled
Port Channel L2, L3 L3 Yes Shutdown (disabled)
Interfaces 406