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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module
Conguration Guide
9.11(2.1P1)
Notes, cautions, and warnings
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2017 - 06
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 33
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 34
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................34
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 34
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................34
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 34
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................35
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................35
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 35
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................36
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................36
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping...........................................................................................................................36
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................36
Link Aggregation...............................................................................................................................................................37
Link Tracking..................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 37
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Server-Facing LAGs...................................................................................................................................................37
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................38
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 39
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................39
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................40
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 47
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 47
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................49
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................49
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Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................49
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................49
Boot Process....................................................................................................................................................................50
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 51
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................52
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................52
Accessing the Switch Remotely...............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 52
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................53
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 53
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................53
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................54
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 54
Save the Running-Conguration............................................................................................................................. 55
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Managing the File System...............................................................................................................................................57
View the Command History........................................................................................................................................... 58
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 58
Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS................................................................................................59
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
Deploying FN I/O Module............................................................................................................................................... 60
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode.............................................................................................61
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................. 61
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................63
Verifying the Congurations.....................................................................................................................................64
5 Management............................................................................................................................................... 65
Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 65
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................66
Customizing a Privilege Level...................................................................................................................................66
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username...............................................................................................................68
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 68
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 68
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 69
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................70
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server..............................................................................................71
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 72
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................72
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 73
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 73
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 73
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................73
Changing System Logging Settings............................................................................................................................... 74
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................75
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................75
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Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 76
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 77
Enabling Secure Management Mode.............................................................................................................................77
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................78
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................78
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................78
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 78
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................79
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 79
Terminal Lines...................................................................................................................................................................80
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................80
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................80
Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 81
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................82
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 82
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................83
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................83
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 83
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................84
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 84
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 85
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 85
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................85
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................86
Recovering from a Forgotten Password........................................................................................................................87
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................88
Recovering from a Failed Start...................................................................................................................................... 89
6 802.1X......................................................................................................................................................... 90
The Port-Authentication Process.................................................................................................................................. 93
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................94
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 94
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................95
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 95
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions.....................................................................................................96
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication......................................................................................97
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 98
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................99
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................99
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.........................................................................100
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs....................................................................................................................101
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................102
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 102
7 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................104
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Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 104
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN groups............................................................................................................105
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................106
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 106
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters....................................................................................................... 107
Viewing CAM Usage.......................................................................................................................................................107
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 109
8 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................110
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)...................................................................................................................................... 111
Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS........................................................................................................... 112
ACLs and VLANs.............................................................................................................................................................112
ACL Optimization............................................................................................................................................................ 112
Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac..............................................................................112
Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence..............................................................................112
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 113
IP Fragments ACL Examples..........................................................................................................................................113
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples......................................................................................................................................... 113
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................114
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter............................................................................................................................115
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................116
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number..............................................................................................................116
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number........................................................................................................117
Established Flag...............................................................................................................................................................117
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs.............................................................................................................................117
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................118
Applying an IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................................118
Counting ACL Hits.......................................................................................................................................................... 119
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 119
Congure Egress ACLs..................................................................................................................................................120
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).......................................................................................................... 120
IP Prex Lists................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Implementation Information..................................................................................................................................... 121
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.........................................................................................................................121
Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................122
Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................. 122
Viewing Prex Lists........................................................................................................................................................ 123
Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution........................................................................................................... 124
Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)......................................................................................................................124
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 125
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.............................................................................................................................125
Route Maps..................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Implementation Information.....................................................................................................................................127
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................................127
Conguration Task List for Route Maps...................................................................................................................... 127
Creating a Route Map....................................................................................................................................................127
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Congure Route Map Filters.........................................................................................................................................129
Conguring Match Routes............................................................................................................................................ 129
Conguring Set Conditions........................................................................................................................................... 130
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution........................................................................................................131
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging.................................................................................................................. 131
Continue Clause..............................................................................................................................................................132
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 132
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................133
Conguring ACL Logging...............................................................................................................................................133
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 134
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................134
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................135
9 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 137
How BFD Works..............................................................................................................................................................137
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................138
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 139
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 140
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................142
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 142
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 142
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................143
Enabling BFD Globally.............................................................................................................................................. 143
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 144
Disabling and Re-Enabling BFD...............................................................................................................................144
Congure BFD for Static Routes..................................................................................................................................145
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................145
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes.................................................................................................................145
Establishing Static Route Sessions on Specic Neighbors................................................................................. 146
Changing Static Route Session Parameters..........................................................................................................147
Disabling BFD for Static Routes..............................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for OSPF............................................................................................................................................... 147
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................148
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors........................................................................................................ 148
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors for nondefault VRFs.................................................................... 149
Changing OSPF Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................150
Disabling BFD for OSPF.......................................................................................................................................... 150
Congure BFD for OSPFv3............................................................................................................................................151
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................151
Establishing Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors.....................................................................................................151
Establishing BFD Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors for nondefault VRFs........................................................ 151
Changing OSPFv3 Session Parameters.................................................................................................................153
Disabling BFD for OSPFv3...................................................................................................................................... 153
Congure BFD for BGP................................................................................................................................................. 153
Prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................................153
Establishing Sessions with BGP Neighbors.......................................................................................................... 154
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Disabling BFD for BGP.............................................................................................................................................155
Use BFD in a BGP Peer Group............................................................................................................................... 156
Displaying BFD for BGP Information......................................................................................................................156
Congure BFD for VRRP...............................................................................................................................................160
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................160
Establishing Sessions with All VRRP Neighbors....................................................................................................161
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................ 161
Changing VRRP Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................162
Disabling BFD for VRRP.......................................................................................................................................... 162
Congure BFD for VLANs............................................................................................................................................. 163
Related Conguration Task......................................................................................................................................163
Establish Sessions with VLAN Neighbors............................................................................................................. 164
Changing VLAN Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................164
Disabling BFD for VLANs.........................................................................................................................................165
Congure BFD for Port-Channels................................................................................................................................165
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................165
Establish Sessions on Port-Channels.....................................................................................................................166
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 166
Disabling BFD for Port-Channels............................................................................................................................167
Conguring Protocol Liveness...................................................................................................................................... 167
Troubleshooting BFD...................................................................................................................................................... 167
10 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)................................................................................................... 169
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 169
Sessions and Peers......................................................................................................................................................... 171
Establish a Session....................................................................................................................................................171
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................172
Communities..............................................................................................................................................................173
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................173
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 173
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................175
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................175
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................176
Origin.......................................................................................................................................................................... 177
AS Path...................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Multiprotocol BGP.......................................................................................................................................................... 178
Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................ 179
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................179
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 179
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations............................................................................................. 180
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 180
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 180
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 182
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................183
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 183
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Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................184
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 184
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 185
Enabling MBGP Congurations.............................................................................................................................. 215
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................216
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 216
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................217
PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................218
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................218
11 Conguration Cloning................................................................................................................................227
Cloning Conguration Output Status..........................................................................................................................227
12 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................230
CAM Allocation.............................................................................................................................................................. 230
Test CAM Usage.............................................................................................................................................................231
View CAM-ACL Settings............................................................................................................................................... 231
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 232
13 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................233
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 234
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 235
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 236
Show Commands.....................................................................................................................................................237
14 Data Center Bridging (DCB).....................................................................................................................239
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................239
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 239
Priority-Based Flow Control......................................................................................................................................... 240
Enhanced Transmission Selection.................................................................................................................................241
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx).....................................................................................................243
Creating a DCB Map......................................................................................................................................................243
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................243
Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports......................................................................................244
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................244
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.........................................................................................................................245
Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode........................................................................................................ 245
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 247
How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented...............................................................................................249
Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 249
Conguring the PFC Buer in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................... 250
Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection........................................................................................................... 251
How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented...................................................................................... 251
ETS Operation with DCBx...................................................................................................................................... 252
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 252
DCBx Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 253
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DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 253
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 253
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 254
Conguration Source Election............................................................................................................................... 255
Propagation of DCB Information........................................................................................................................... 255
Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version....................................................................................................................256
DCBx Example......................................................................................................................................................... 256
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................257
DCBx Error Messages.............................................................................................................................................258
Debugging DCBx on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 258
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 258
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment.......................................................................................... 267
Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation...................................................................................................... 267
15 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 270
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 270
Assigning an IP Address using DHCP..........................................................................................................................270
Debugging DHCP Client Operation..............................................................................................................................272
DHCP Client....................................................................................................................................................................273
How DHCP Client is Implemented............................................................................................................................... 274
DHCP Client on a Management Interface.................................................................................................................. 274
DHCP Client on a VLAN............................................................................................................................................... 275
DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................275
Option 82........................................................................................................................................................................ 276
Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses................................................................................................ 277
Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information....................................................................................................... 277
16 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 279
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity..................................................................................................................................... 279
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop...............................................................................................................279
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................279
Managing ECMP Group Paths.....................................................................................................................................280
17 FC FPORT.................................................................................................................................................281
FC FPORT...................................................................................................................................................................... 282
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode............................................................................................................ 282
Name Server.................................................................................................................................................................. 283
FCoE Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................284
Creating an FCoE Map..................................................................................................................................................284
Zoning............................................................................................................................................................................. 285
Creating Zone and Adding Members...........................................................................................................................286
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members..................................................................................................................286
Creating Zonesets..........................................................................................................................................................286
Activating a Zoneset......................................................................................................................................................287
Displaying the Fabric Parameters.................................................................................................................................287
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18 FCoE Transit............................................................................................................................................ 290
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................290
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................290
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................290
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 292
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................293
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 294
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 294
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................294
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................295
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 295
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................295
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................295
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 295
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................296
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 296
Conguring FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................... 297
Displaying FIP Snooping Information........................................................................................................................... 297
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................302
19 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................305
Preparing the System................................................................................................................................................... 305
Enabling FIPS Mode......................................................................................................................................................305
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................306
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status..................................................................................................................................... 306
Disabling FIPS Mode......................................................................................................................................................307
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).................................................................................................. 308
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................308
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 309
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 310
Important FRRP Points.............................................................................................................................................311
Important FRRP Concepts......................................................................................................................................312
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 313
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 313
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 313
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................313
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs....................................................................................................... 315
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 316
Clearing the FRRP Counters...................................................................................................................................316
Viewing the FRRP Conguration............................................................................................................................316
Viewing the FRRP Information............................................................................................................................... 316
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 317
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................317
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................317
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FRRP Support on VLT................................................................................................................................................... 319
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 320
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 321
21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).............................................................................................. 322
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................322
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 322
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 323
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 323
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................324
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................324
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 325
22 FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................... 326
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................326
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 326
Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.........................................................................................326
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 328
How FIP Snooping is Implemented..............................................................................................................................329
FIP Snooping on VLANs......................................................................................................................................... 329
FC-MAP Value......................................................................................................................................................... 330
Bridge-to-FCF Links................................................................................................................................................330
Impact on other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 330
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................330
FIP Snooping Restrictions....................................................................................................................................... 331
Conguring FIP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................331
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................332
FIP Snooping Example...................................................................................................................................................337
Debugging FIP Snooping...............................................................................................................................................337
23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................339
IGMP Overview..............................................................................................................................................................339
IGMP Version 2..............................................................................................................................................................339
Joining a Multicast Group.......................................................................................................................................340
Leaving a Multicast Group......................................................................................................................................340
IGMP Version 3..............................................................................................................................................................340
Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources............................................................................................................. 341
Leaving and Staying in Groups...............................................................................................................................342
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................343
How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator.......................................................................................... 343
Disabling Multicast Flooding.........................................................................................................................................343
Displaying IGMP Information........................................................................................................................................343
24 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 346
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................346
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................346
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Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................347
View Basic Interface Information................................................................................................................................. 347
Conguring the Default Interface................................................................................................................................ 349
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................350
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................350
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................350
Overview of Layer Modes....................................................................................................................................... 351
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode.................................................................................................................. 351
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode................................................................................................................... 351
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................352
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 352
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................353
Conguring Management Interfaces on the Switch........................................................................................... 354
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 355
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................355
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 356
VLAN Membership........................................................................................................................................................ 356
Default VLAN .......................................................................................................................................................... 357
Port-Based VLANs.................................................................................................................................................. 357
VLANs and Port Tagging.........................................................................................................................................357
Conguring VLAN Membership.............................................................................................................................358
Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................358
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN................................................................................................................ 359
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN..........................................................................................................359
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels............................................................................... 360
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................361
Port Channel Denition and Standards..................................................................................................................361
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................361
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................362
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels...........................................................................................362
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................363
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................363
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................363
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................365
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 366
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 366
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................367
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 367
Load Balancing through Port Channels.......................................................................................................................367
Changing the Hash Algorithm...................................................................................................................................... 367
Server Ports................................................................................................................................................................... 368
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong................................................................................................... 368
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 369
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 369
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................370
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Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................. 371
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 371
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro..................................................................................................................... 371
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................372
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 373
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................373
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports............................................................................................................. 374
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.............................................................................................................. 374
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................375
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................375
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................376
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................376
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames.................................................................................................376
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................377
Congure MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................... 377
Port-Pipes....................................................................................................................................................................... 378
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 378
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................378
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................380
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 381
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.....................................................................................................382
Dynamic Counters................................................................................................................................................... 383
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing....................................................................................... 384
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 386
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................386
26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................388
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................388
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................389
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses....................................................................................................................389
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview........................................................................................................................... 391
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................392
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 392
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 392
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 393
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................393
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names......................................................................................................393
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains............................................................................. 394
Conguring DNS with Traceroute..........................................................................................................................394
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 395
Conguration Tasks for ARP..................................................................................................................................395
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................397
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 397
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................398
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 399
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Conguration Tasks for ICMP................................................................................................................................399
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................399
Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................ 399
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 399
Enabling UDP Helper...............................................................................................................................................400
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 400
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses...........................................................................................................400
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses................................................................................................... 401
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.............................................................................................401
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses......................................................................................402
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................ 402
27 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 404
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................404
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................405
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 405
IPv6 Header Fields........................................................................................................................................................ 406
Version (4 bits).........................................................................................................................................................406
Trac Class (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................ 406
Flow Label (20 bits).................................................................................................................................................406
Payload Length (16 bits).........................................................................................................................................406
Next Header (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................407
Hop Limit (8 bits).....................................................................................................................................................407
Source Address (128 bits).......................................................................................................................................408
Destination Address (128 bits)............................................................................................................................... 408
Extension Header Fields............................................................................................................................................... 408
Hop-by-Hop Options Header.................................................................................................................................408
Addressing...................................................................................................................................................................... 409
Link-local Addresses................................................................................................................................................409
Static and Dynamic Addressing............................................................................................................................. 409
Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................................410
ICMPv6.............................................................................................................................................................................411
Path MTU Discovery......................................................................................................................................................412
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery...............................................................................................................................................412
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets........................................................................................................... 413
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS..................................................................................................................... 413
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................ 413
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information.......................................................................................................................414
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host ......................................................................................414
IPv6 Multicast.................................................................................................................................................................414
Conguration Task List for IPv6................................................................................................................................... 415
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole.....................................................................................................................................415
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface............................................................................................................416
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route.................................................................................................................................416
Conguring Telnet with IPv6...................................................................................................................................417
SNMP over IPv6.......................................................................................................................................................417
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Showing IPv6 Information....................................................................................................................................... 417
Showing an IPv6 Interface...................................................................................................................................... 418
Showing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................418
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................419
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................420
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 420
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 420
28 iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 421
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................421
iSCSI Optimization Overview........................................................................................................................................421
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows.....................................................................................................................................422
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.............................................................................................................423
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.......................................................................423
iSCSI Optimization: Operation......................................................................................................................................423
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................424
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................425
29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System...........................................................................................427
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................427
IS-IS Addressing............................................................................................................................................................. 427
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 428
Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................428
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................429
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................429
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................429
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................429
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................430
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................430
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS...................................................................................................................................431
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................445
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 445
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 445
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................445
Leaks from One Level to Another.......................................................................................................................... 447
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 448
30 Isolated Networks for Aggregators.......................................................................................................... 452
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings............................................................................................... 452
31 Link Aggregation...................................................................................................................................... 453
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................453
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator.....................................................................................................453
Uplink LAG................................................................................................................................................................454
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................ 454
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 454
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Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................454
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)................................................................................................................ 455
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................455
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 455
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................455
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 457
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 458
Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces.................................................................................................. 458
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................459
Conguring Auto LAG...................................................................................................................................................459
Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active..............................................461
Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode..............................................462
Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage........................................................................ 462
Enabling LACP link-fallback.......................................................................................................................................... 462
Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle..................................................................463
Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle........................................................................................................ 463
Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration....................................................................................................464
Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports.......................................................................................................... 466
32 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................468
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................468
Managing the MAC Address Table.............................................................................................................................. 468
Clearing the MAC Address Entries........................................................................................................................468
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 469
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................469
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming............................................................................................................. 470
MAC Address Station Move...................................................................................................................................470
MAC Move Optimization......................................................................................................................................... 471
33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)......................................................................................................472
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 472
Protocol Data Units........................................................................................................................................................472
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................474
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 474
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................474
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations.............................................................................................474
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................475
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 475
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 475
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 476
Management TLVs...................................................................................................................................................476
IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs...................................................................................................................... 477
LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV...................................................................................................................................478
LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV......................................................................................................................... 479
Extended Power via MDI TLV................................................................................................................................ 480
LLDP Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 480
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Viewing the LLDP Conguration.................................................................................................................................. 481
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents...................................................................................... 481
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 482
Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................483
Clearing LLDP Counters............................................................................................................................................... 483
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................484
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 484
34 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 490
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................490
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................490
Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches...............................................................................................................491
Benets and Working of Microsoft Clustering............................................................................................................491
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................. 491
Conguring a Switch for NLB ......................................................................................................................................491
Multicast NLB Mode............................................................................................................................................... 492
35 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 493
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 493
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................495
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................496
Congure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol.................................................................................................496
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................496
Enabling MSDP..............................................................................................................................................................500
Manage the Source-Active Cache...............................................................................................................................501
Viewing the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 501
Limiting the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 501
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................502
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 502
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................502
Specifying Source-Active Messages.......................................................................................................................... 506
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer................................................................................................... 507
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................507
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 508
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 508
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................509
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................509
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 510
Debugging MSDP...........................................................................................................................................................510
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................. 511
Conguring Anycast RP.................................................................................................................................................512
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding......................................................................................................... 513
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages............................................................................................... 513
MSDP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 515
36 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 518
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Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................518
Spanning Tree Variations............................................................................................................................................... 519
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 519
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol.................................................................................................................519
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................520
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 520
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 520
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................ 521
Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges................................................................................................. 522
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 522
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 523
Enable BPDU Filtering Globally.................................................................................................................................... 524
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................524
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 525
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 526
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................526
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration....................................................................................... 527
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 530
37 Multicast Features................................................................................................................................... 532
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................532
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................532
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast.........................................................................................................533
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................533
IPv4 Multicast Policies.................................................................................................................................................. 533
Limiting the Number of Multicast Routes............................................................................................................ 534
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group.............................................................................................................. 534
Rate Limiting IGMP Join Requests........................................................................................................................537
Preventing a PIM Router from Forming an Adjacency........................................................................................537
Preventing a Source from Registering with the RP............................................................................................ 537
Preventing a PIM Router from Processing a Join............................................................................................... 540
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 540
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 541
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths............................................................................................................ 541
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................542
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................543
38 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)....................................................................................549
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................549
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 549
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................550
Networks and Neighbors.........................................................................................................................................551
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................. 551
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................553
Router Priority and Cost.........................................................................................................................................554
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OSPF with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................555
Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................................................... 556
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)..............................................................................................................557
Processing SNMP and Sending SNMP Traps......................................................................................................557
OSPF ACK Packing................................................................................................................................................. 557
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers...................................................................................................... 557
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................558
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)........................................................................................ 558
Troubleshooting OSPFv2........................................................................................................................................569
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6)...............................................................................................573
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing............................................................................................................................... 574
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface............................................................................................................574
Assigning Area ID on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 574
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally........................................................................................575
Conguring Stub Areas...........................................................................................................................................575
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................575
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................576
Conguring a Default Route...................................................................................................................................576
Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart........................................................................................................................577
Displaying Graceful Restart.....................................................................................................................................577
OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec.....................................................................................................................579
39 Policy-based Routing (PBR).................................................................................................................... 587
Overview.........................................................................................................................................................................587
Implementing Policy-based Routing with Dell Networking OS................................................................................ 589
Conguration Task List for Policy-based Routing......................................................................................................589
PBR Exceptions (Permit)........................................................................................................................................ 591
Apply a Redirect-list to an Interface using a Redirect-group................................................................................... 593
Show Redirect List Conguration..........................................................................................................................594
Sample Conguration....................................................................................................................................................595
Create the Redirect-List GOLDAssign Redirect-List GOLD to Interface 2/11View Redirect-List GOLD..... 595
40 PIM Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM).................................................................................................................. 599
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 599
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................599
Requesting Multicast Trac.................................................................................................................................. 600
Refuse Multicast Trac..........................................................................................................................................600
Send Multicast Trac.............................................................................................................................................600
Conguring PIM-SM......................................................................................................................................................601
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................601
Enable PIM-SM.............................................................................................................................................................. 601
Conguring S,G Expiry Timers..................................................................................................................................... 602
Conguring a Static Rendezvous Point...................................................................................................................... 603
Overriding Bootstrap Router Updates.................................................................................................................. 603
Conguring a Designated Router................................................................................................................................ 604
Creating Multicast Boundaries and Domains............................................................................................................. 604
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