Setup Guide

Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................. 411
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................. 411
Loopback Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................................412
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................. 413
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................413
Port Channel Denition and Standards..................................................................................................................413
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................413
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 413
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................414
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................414
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 415
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 415
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................417
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 417
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 418
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel........................................................................................................... 419
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................419
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 419
Load-Balancing Method..........................................................................................................................................420
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................420
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 421
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 421
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................422
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 423
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................424
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 424
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................424
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 425
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 426
Splitting 100G Ports...................................................................................................................................................... 426
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................427
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................428
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................428
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................430
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 431
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 432
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 432
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................433
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................434
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................434
CR4 Auto-Negotiation...................................................................................................................................................434
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................................................. 435
Syslog Warning Upon Connecting SFP28 Optics with QSA....................................................................................436
FEC Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 436
View interface information with FEC type..................................................................................................................438
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