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Dell EMC Conguration Guide for the S4048T
ON System
9.14.0.0
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2018 - 07
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................37
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................37
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Related Documents..........................................................................................................................................................37
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 38
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................38
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................44
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................45
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................49
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................49
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................49
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 50
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely............................................................................................................................. 50
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................50
Congure a Management Route...............................................................................................................................51
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................51
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................52
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................52
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 53
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................53
Save the Running-Conguration............................................................................................................................. 55
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 56
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Compressing Conguration Files..............................................................................................................................57
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 59
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option......................................................................... 60
View Command History................................................................................................................................................... 61
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Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................. 61
Verify Software Images Before Installation....................................................................................................................61
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 62
4 Management................................................................................................................................................64
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................64
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................65
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 65
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode....................................................................... 65
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................65
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................65
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 67
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line...........................................................................................................67
Conguring Logging.........................................................................................................................................................67
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 68
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................70
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration.................................................................................. 70
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server..............................................................................................71
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server...................................................................................................... 72
Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................72
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................72
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 72
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................73
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................74
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions.............................................................................74
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................75
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 75
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 76
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................76
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 76
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 76
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 77
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................77
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................77
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 78
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................79
Synchronizing Log Messages.........................................................................................................................................80
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages....................................................................................................................80
File Transfer Services....................................................................................................................................................... 81
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services...................................................................................................81
Enabling the FTP Server............................................................................................................................................81
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................ 81
Conguring FTP Client Parameters.........................................................................................................................82
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 82
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................83
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................84
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Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode...................................................................................................................85
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................85
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 86
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................86
Restoring the Factory Default Settings........................................................................................................................ 86
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................87
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables..................................................................................................87
Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot...............................................................................................................88
5 802.1X......................................................................................................................................................... 90
Port-Authentication Process.......................................................................................................................................... 92
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................92
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................93
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 93
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................93
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 94
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions...........................................................................................................95
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 96
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port................................................................................................................97
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................ 97
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................98
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 99
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.........................................................................................................................100
Conguring a Guest VLAN...................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN..............................................................................................................101
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM).................................. 103
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 103
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups........................................................................................................... 104
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................104
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 104
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................105
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 106
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes...................................................................................................................107
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes...................................................................................................................... 108
Conguring UFT Modes.......................................................................................................................................... 108
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 109
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................110
CAM Usage.................................................................................................................................................................111
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................. 111
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................................113
Conguration Task List for Route Maps.................................................................................................................113
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................115
Conguring Set Conditions...................................................................................................................................... 117
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution..................................................................................................118
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Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................ 118
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................ 119
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 119
IP Fragments ACL Examples................................................................................................................................... 119
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples...................................................................................................................................120
Congure a Standard IP ACL........................................................................................................................................120
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter......................................................................................................................121
Congure an Extended IP ACL..................................................................................................................................... 122
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 122
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................124
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................124
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................125
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................125
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................126
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 126
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 127
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 128
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 128
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 129
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 129
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 132
Conguring a Remark.............................................................................................................................................. 132
Deleting a Remark.................................................................................................................................................... 133
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 134
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................134
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................135
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 135
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 136
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging................................................................................................................137
Conguring ACL Logging.........................................................................................................................................137
Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................138
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................138
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................139
Conguring UDF ACL.................................................................................................................................................... 140
Conguring IP Mirror Access Group............................................................................................................................ 143
Sample Conguration...............................................................................................................................................144
Example of viewing IP mirror–access–group applied to an Interface................................................................144
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 145
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 145
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................146
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 147
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 148
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................150
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................150
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 150
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Congure BFD for Physical Ports........................................................................................................................... 151
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................152
Congure BFD for IPv6 Static Routes...................................................................................................................156
Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................158
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................163
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................166
Congure BFD for BGP...........................................................................................................................................168
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................176
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................ 178
9 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)................................................................................................................ 179
Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4).............................................................................................................179
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 179
AS4 Number Representation................................................................................................................................... 181
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................183
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................183
MBGP for IPv4 MulticastBGP Address Family modelIPv4 and IPv6 address family....................................... 184
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................184
Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 184
Implementing BGP global and address family.............................................................................................................185
BGP global conguration default values................................................................................................................186
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path.......................................................................................................................186
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 187
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................188
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................189
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................189
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................190
AS Path.......................................................................................................................................................................191
Next Hop....................................................................................................................................................................191
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS.........................................................................................................192
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................192
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 192
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 193
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 193
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................194
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 194
Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 195
Conguring a basic BGP network................................................................................................................................ 195
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 195
Conguring a BGP peer...........................................................................................................................................198
Conguring AS4 Number Representations...........................................................................................................199
Conguring a BGP VRF address family................................................................................................................ 200
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration............................................................................................................... 202
Aggregating Routes.................................................................................................................................................205
Filtering BGP Routes...............................................................................................................................................205
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps..............................................................................................................207
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Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information..............................................................................................207
Conguring Peer Groups........................................................................................................................................ 208
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................216
Conguring Passive Peering....................................................................................................................................217
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................. 218
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 219
Enabling Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................220
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 221
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................222
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................223
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................224
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................ 224
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 225
Filtering Routes with Community Lists................................................................................................................. 226
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute............................................................................................................ 227
Changing MED Attributes.......................................................................................................................................228
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..................................................................................................229
Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............ 229
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute...........................................................................................................................230
Enabling Multipath...................................................................................................................................................230
Route Reectors.......................................................................................................................................................231
Conguring BGP Confederations.......................................................................................................................... 232
Enabling Route Flap Dampening............................................................................................................................ 232
Changing BGP Timers.............................................................................................................................................235
Setting the extended timer.................................................................................................................................... 235
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................236
Route Map Continue................................................................................................................................................237
Enabling MBGP Congurations................................................................................................................................... 238
MBGP support for IPv6................................................................................................................................................238
Conguring IPv6 MBGP between peers.................................................................................................................... 238
Example-Conguring IPv4 and IPv6 neighbors......................................................................................................... 239
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor................................................ 241
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................ 243
Debugging BGP..............................................................................................................................................................243
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................244
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 245
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 246
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................247
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................247
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................249
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 249
View CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................251
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period.........................................................................................................251
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 252
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 253
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Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................253
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................253
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 254
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 255
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 256
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 258
CoPP for OSPFv3 Packets.....................................................................................................................................259
Conguring CoPP for OSPFv3.............................................................................................................................. 262
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 262
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB).....................................................................................................................265
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 265
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 266
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................267
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................268
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.................................................................................................................. 269
Enabling Data Center Bridging.....................................................................................................................................269
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................270
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration...............................................................................................................271
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.....................................................................................................................271
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................272
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map....................................................................................................................................273
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................273
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 274
Applying a DCB Map on a Port.....................................................................................................................................274
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................275
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................275
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................277
Pause and Resume of Trac.................................................................................................................................. 277
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets.............................................................................................................277
Behavior of Tagged Packets......................................................................................................................................... 278
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................278
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................279
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................279
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................279
Creating an ETS Priority Group............................................................................................................................. 280
ETS Operation with DCBx.......................................................................................................................................281
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN................................................................................................. 281
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................282
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 283
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................284
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 284
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................284
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 284
DCBx Port Roles......................................................................................................................................................285
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DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 286
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................286
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................287
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version.......................................................................287
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................288
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................288
Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................289
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 292
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................302
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 303
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................304
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples.............................................................................................. 305
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP).........................................................................................306
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 306
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................308
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 309
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server............................................................................................................. 309
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation.................................................................................. 310
Specifying a Default Gateway..................................................................................................................................311
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution...................................................................................................... 312
Using DNS for Address Resolution.........................................................................................................................312
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution...................................................................................................... 312
Creating Manual Binding Entries.............................................................................................................................312
Debugging the DHCP Server..................................................................................................................................313
Using DHCP Clear Commands............................................................................................................................... 313
Congure the System to be a Relay Agent................................................................................................................. 313
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client................................................................................................................315
Conguring the DHCP Client System....................................................................................................................315
DHCP Client on a Management Interface.............................................................................................................317
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features........................................................................................................317
DHCP Relay When DHCP Server and Client are in Dierent VRFs.........................................................................318
Conguring Route Leaking between VRFs on DHCP Relay Agent.................................................................... 318
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230).................................................................................... 319
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................320
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................320
DHCP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................321
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................325
Dynamic ARP Inspection.........................................................................................................................................326
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection....................................................................................................................327
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................ 328
Enabling IP Source Address Validation.................................................................................................................. 328
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................ 329
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation.......................................................................................................329
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets................................................................................................... 330
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets...................................................................................................330
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14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).................................................................................................................331
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity......................................................................................................................................331
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................. 331
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop............................................................................................................... 331
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed.................................................................................................................. 332
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 332
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................333
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle.......................................................................................................................... 333
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................333
RTAG7............................................................................................................................................................................. 334
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP................................................................................................................................... 335
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................338
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 338
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................ 338
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................340
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................342
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 342
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................342
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................342
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................343
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................344
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 344
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................344
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................344
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 344
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 345
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................345
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................346
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 351
16 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................353
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 353
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................353
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 354
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................354
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................354
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 355
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 356
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................356
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 357
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................357
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................358
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................359
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Implementing FRRP...................................................................................................................................................... 360
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 360
Creating the FRRP Group...................................................................................................................................... 360
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................361
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................362
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................363
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................363
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................363
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................363
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 364
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................364
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................364
FRRP Support on VLT.................................................................................................................................................. 365
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 366
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................367
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................368
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 368
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 369
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................369
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 370
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................370
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................370
Congure a GARP Timer............................................................................................................................................... 371
RPM Redundancy...........................................................................................................................................................371
19 High Availability (HA)................................................................................................................................373
Component Redundancy.............................................................................................................................................. 373
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover...........................................................................................................373
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units...............................................................................374
Forcing a Stack Unit Failover..................................................................................................................................374
Specifying an Auto-Failover Limit.......................................................................................................................... 375
Disabling Auto-Reboot............................................................................................................................................ 375
Pre-Conguring a Stack Unit Slot............................................................................................................................... 375
Removing a Provisioned Logical Stack Unit............................................................................................................... 375
Hitless Behavior..............................................................................................................................................................375
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................376
Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 376
Software Component Health Monitoring..............................................................................................................376
System Health Monitoring...................................................................................................................................... 376
Failure and Event Logging.......................................................................................................................................377
Hot-Lock Behavior......................................................................................................................................................... 377
20 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 378
IGMP Implementation Information...............................................................................................................................378
IGMP Protocol Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 378
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IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 378
IGMP Version 3........................................................................................................................................................380
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 383
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................383
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces............................................................................................................................... 384
Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................384
Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................385
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 385
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 385
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group.................................................................................................................... 386
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................389
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................389
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 389
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................389
Removing a Group-Port Association.....................................................................................................................390
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................390
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router....................................................................................... 391
Conguring the Switch as Querier.........................................................................................................................391
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................392
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................392
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................392
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 393
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 394
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac.......................................................................................................................395
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac..................................................................................................................... 395
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 396
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................396
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 397
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................398
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................399
Designating a Multicast Router Interface...................................................................................................................399
21 Interfaces..................................................................................................................................................401
Basic Interface Conguration........................................................................................................................................401
Advanced Interface Conguration............................................................................................................................... 401
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................402
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................402
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................404
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................405
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................405
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................405
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 406
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................406
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 406
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................407
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................407
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Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface.......................................................................................................408
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................409
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................409
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 409
Conguring EIS.........................................................................................................................................................410
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 410
Conguring Management Interfaces..................................................................................................................... 410
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................ 412
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 412
Loopback Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................................413
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................. 414
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................414
Port Channel Denition and Standards..................................................................................................................414
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................414
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 414
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................415
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 415
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 416
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 416
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................418
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 418
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 419
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 420
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................420
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................420
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................421
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 421
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 421
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................422
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 423
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................423
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 424
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................424
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 425
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 425
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................426
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................427
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................428
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 429
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................429
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................430
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 431
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 431
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................433
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 434
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Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 435
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................435
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................436
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................437
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 437
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................437
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................439
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................439
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 440
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 441
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 443
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................443
Discard Counters........................................................................................................................................................... 444
Display discard counters......................................................................................................................................... 444
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 446
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................446
23 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................448
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................449
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................449
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................449
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................449
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 450
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface...........................................................................................451
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 452
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................452
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................452
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 452
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 453
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 453
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................454
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................454
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 454
Conguring DNS with Traceroute............................................................................................................................... 455
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 456
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 456
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................456
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................457
Clearing ARP Cache...................................................................................................................................................... 457
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................457
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................457
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 458
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................458
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 459
Conguration Tasks for ICMP......................................................................................................................................459
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Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 459
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................460
Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................ 460
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 460
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................460
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 460
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 461
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses................................................................................................................. 461
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................462
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................462
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................463
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................463
24 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 464
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................464
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................465
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 465
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................465
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................466
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................468
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 469
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................... 470
ICMPv6............................................................................................................................................................................471
Path MTU discovery......................................................................................................................................................472
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 472
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................473
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.....................................................................................................................473
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................473
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host ..................................................................................... 474
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................475
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 475
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 476
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................476
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface........................................................................................................... 477
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................ 477
Conguring Telnet with IPv6.................................................................................................................................. 478
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................478
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 478
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information.............................................................................................................. 479
Showing IPv6 Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 479
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................481
Clearing IPv6 Routes................................................................................................................................................481
Disabling ND Entry Timeout....................................................................................................................................481
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 482
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................483
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard......................................................................................................................................484
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25 iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................. 485
iSCSI Optimization Overview.......................................................................................................................................485
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows............................................................................................................................... 487
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows......................................................................................487
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows....................................................................................................... 487
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays........................................................................... 488
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................488
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................489
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................. 489
Default iSCSI Optimization Values...............................................................................................................................490
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 490
Conguring iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 490
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................492
26 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 494
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................494
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................494
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 495
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 495
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................496
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................496
Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................................ 496
Timers....................................................................................................................................................................... 496
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................496
Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 497
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................498
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................505
Changing the IS-Type..............................................................................................................................................506
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................508
Redistributing IPv6 Routes.....................................................................................................................................509
Conguring Authentication Passwords..................................................................................................................510
Setting the Overload Bit..........................................................................................................................................510
Debugging IS-IS.........................................................................................................................................................511
IS-IS Metric Styles..........................................................................................................................................................512
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................ 512
Maximum Values in the Routing Table................................................................................................................... 512
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only.................................................................................................512
Leaks from One Level to Another...........................................................................................................................514
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................515
27 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)............................................................................................... 517
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP................................................................................................................... 517
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 517
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................518
Conguring LACP Commands................................................................................................................................518
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LACP Conguration Tasks.............................................................................................................................................519
Creating a LAG......................................................................................................................................................... 519
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic.........................................................................................................519
Setting the LACP Long Timeout........................................................................................................................... 520
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................520
Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................................................................... 521
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking................................................................................................................521
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 523
LACP Basic Conguration Example.............................................................................................................................523
Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 523
28 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................532
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 532
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 532
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................532
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................533
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 533
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................533
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 534
mac learning-limit Dynamic.....................................................................................................................................534
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 534
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 535
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 535
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................535
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 536
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations........................................................................... 536
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 537
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................538
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 540
Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................541
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................542
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 543
Enabling FEFD on an Interface...............................................................................................................................543
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................544
29 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 546
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................546
Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 546
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 547
Management TLVs...................................................................................................................................................547
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................ 549
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................ 549
Congure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................. 553
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................553
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 553
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................554
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CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 554
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................554
Disabling and Undoing LLDP..................................................................................................................................555
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................555
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports..........................................................................................555
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................555
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs......................................................................................................... 557
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 557
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.............................................................................................. 557
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 557
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 558
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................558
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors.............................................................................. 558
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................560
Conguring LLDP Notication Interval........................................................................................................................561
Conguring LLDP Notication Interval........................................................................................................................561
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode.................................................................................................................... 561
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 562
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................563
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 564
30 Microsoft Network Load Balancing..........................................................................................................569
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................569
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................569
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................570
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................570
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding .............................................................................................................................570
Conguring a Switch for NLB ..................................................................................................................................... 570
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB..................................................................................................................... 571
31 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).......................................................................................... 572
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 572
Anycast RP..................................................................................................................................................................... 573
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................574
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................ 574
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 574
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 578
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 579
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................579
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................579
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................580
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 580
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check..................................................................................... 580
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................583
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................584
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................584
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Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 585
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 585
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................586
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................586
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................587
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 587
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................588
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................589
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 590
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................590
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................592
35 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol..................................................................................................... 595
MLD Version 1................................................................................................................................................................ 595
MLD Querier Router......................................................................................................................................................595
Joining a Multicast Group.............................................................................................................................................596
Leaving a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................596
MLD version 2................................................................................................................................................................596
MLD timers.....................................................................................................................................................................598
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.................................................................................................................... 599
Clearing MLD groups.................................................................................................................................................... 599
Debugging MLD.............................................................................................................................................................599
Explicit Tracking............................................................................................................................................................. 599
Reducing Leave Latency...............................................................................................................................................599
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................600
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................600
33 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 601
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................601
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 602
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................602
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................602
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................603
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 603
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................603
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 604
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection............................................................................................................................... 605
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................605
Changing the Region Name or Revision.....................................................................................................................606
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................606
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................607
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 608
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 609
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................609
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration........................................................................................610
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