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Dell Conguration Guide for the S6000 System
9.11(2.0P1)
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2017 - 05
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................35
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................35
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 35
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 36
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................36
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................36
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 38
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................41
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................42
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................43
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 43
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................44
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................45
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................46
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................46
Default Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................47
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................47
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................47
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................47
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 48
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................48
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................48
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................49
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................49
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 49
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................50
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 52
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................52
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 53
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 54
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 54
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 54
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................55
4 Management................................................................................................................................................57
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Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................57
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................58
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 58
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................58
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................58
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................58
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username...............................................................................................................60
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 60
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 60
Audit and Security Logs.............................................................................................................................................61
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................63
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................63
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................64
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 64
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 64
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................65
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................65
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 65
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................65
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................66
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................67
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions.............................................................................67
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................68
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 68
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 69
Changing System Logging Settings.............................................................................................................................. 69
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 70
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................70
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 72
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 72
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................73
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................73
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 73
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................73
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 74
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................75
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................76
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode....................................................................................................................77
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device.......................................................................................................... 77
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 78
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................78
Recovering from a Forgotten Password on the S6000.............................................................................................. 78
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................79
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Recovering from a Failed Start on the S6000..............................................................................................................79
Restoring the Factory Default Settings........................................................................................................................ 80
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................80
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables.................................................................................................. 81
5 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................83
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................85
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................85
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................86
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 86
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................86
Enabling 802.1X.................................................................................................................................................................87
Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................88
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................89
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................89
Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................90
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions............................................................................................................91
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication...................................................................................... 91
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 92
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................93
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 95
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.......................................................................................................................... 96
Conguring a Guest VLAN....................................................................................................................................... 96
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN...............................................................................................................96
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................98
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs...................................................................98
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................99
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters................................................ 99
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups................................................................................................................................99
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................100
Viewing CAM Usage....................................................................................................................................................... 101
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 102
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 104
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................105
CAM Usage...............................................................................................................................................................106
Implementing ACLs on Dell Networking OS..........................................................................................................106
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................108
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................108
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................110
Conguring Set Conditions.......................................................................................................................................111
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution..................................................................................................112
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................ 113
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................ 113
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IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 114
IP Fragments ACL Examples....................................................................................................................................114
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples................................................................................................................................... 114
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................115
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter......................................................................................................................116
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................117
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................117
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................120
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................120
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................121
Applying an IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................................121
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................122
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 122
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 123
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 124
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 125
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 125
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 128
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................129
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................130
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 130
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 130
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring....................................................................................................................... 131
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................132
Conguring UDF ACL.....................................................................................................................................................133
Conguring IP Mirror Access Group............................................................................................................................ 135
Sample Conguration...............................................................................................................................................136
Example of viewing IP mirror–access–group applied to an Interface................................................................136
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)...................................................................................................137
How BFD Works..............................................................................................................................................................137
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................138
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 139
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 140
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................142
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 142
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 142
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................143
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................144
Congure BFD for OSPF......................................................................................................................................... 147
Congure BFD for OSPFv3......................................................................................................................................151
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................153
Congure BFD for BGP...........................................................................................................................................155
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................162
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................165
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Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................165
9 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).....................................................................................................167
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 167
Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 169
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................169
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................170
BGP Attributes.................................................................................................................................................................171
Best Path Selection Criteria.....................................................................................................................................171
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................173
Local Preference....................................................................................................................................................... 173
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)........................................................................................................................... 174
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................175
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................176
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 176
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................176
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS................................................................................................................... 177
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support...................................................................................................................... 177
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes.........................................................................................177
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 178
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................178
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 178
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 180
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB).........................................................................................................181
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................181
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................182
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 182
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 183
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 186
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................188
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................190
Conguring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 192
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................. 192
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 193
Enabling Graceful Restart........................................................................................................................................194
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................... 195
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 195
Regular Expressions as Filters.................................................................................................................................197
Redistributing Routes...............................................................................................................................................198
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................ 199
Conguring IP Community Lists.............................................................................................................................199
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 200
Filtering Routes with Community Lists..................................................................................................................201
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute............................................................................................................ 202
Changing MED Attributes.......................................................................................................................................203
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..................................................................................................203
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Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............ 204
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute...........................................................................................................................205
Enabling Multipath...................................................................................................................................................205
Filtering BGP Routes...............................................................................................................................................205
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps..............................................................................................................207
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information..............................................................................................207
Conguring BGP Route Reectors........................................................................................................................208
Aggregating Routes.................................................................................................................................................209
Conguring BGP Confederations.......................................................................................................................... 209
Enabling Route Flap Dampening.............................................................................................................................210
Changing BGP Timers..............................................................................................................................................212
Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconguration......................................................................................................212
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors......................................................................................................................213
Route Map Continue................................................................................................................................................215
Enabling MBGP Congurations.................................................................................................................................... 215
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor..........................................216
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................216
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 216
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................217
Capturing PDUs........................................................................................................................................................218
PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................219
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................219
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................226
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................226
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................228
View CAM Proles.........................................................................................................................................................228
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 229
View CAM Usage...........................................................................................................................................................230
CAM Optimization.......................................................................................................................................................... 231
Troubleshoot CAM Proling...........................................................................................................................................231
QoS CAM Region Limitation....................................................................................................................................231
Syslog Error When the Table is Full........................................................................................................................ 231
Syslog Warning Upon 90 Percent Utilization of CAM.........................................................................................232
Syslog Warning for Discrepancies Between Congured Extended Prexes....................................................232
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes......................................................................................................................232
Conguring UFT Modes..........................................................................................................................................232
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 234
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 235
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 236
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 238
Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping..........................................................................................................................239
Conguring Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping.....................................................................................................239
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 240
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12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 242
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................242
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 243
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................244
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................245
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow...................................................................................................................246
Enabling Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................................................... 246
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................247
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................248
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 248
Conguring Lossless Queues....................................................................................................................................... 249
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map....................................................................................................................................251
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................ 251
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 252
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................252
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................252
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method..............................................................................254
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................255
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................255
SNMP Support for PFC and Buer Statistics Tracking........................................................................................... 256
Performing PFC Using DSCP Bits Instead of 802.1p Bits.........................................................................................257
PFC and ETS Conguration Examples........................................................................................................................257
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................257
Operations on Untagged Packets................................................................................................................................258
Generation of PFC for a Priority for Untagged Packets...........................................................................................258
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................258
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 258
Creating an ETS Priority Group............................................................................................................................. 259
ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................260
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN................................................................................................ 260
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map.............................................................................................................................. 261
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 262
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................263
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 263
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................263
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 263
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 264
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 265
Conguration Source Election............................................................................................................................... 265
Propagation of DCB Information........................................................................................................................... 266
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version...................................................................... 266
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................267
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................267
Conguring DCBx.................................................................................................................................................... 267
Verifying the DCB Conguration.................................................................................................................................. 271
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QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment.......................................................................................... 279
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 280
Sample DCB Conguration............................................................................................................................................281
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................283
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 284
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 284
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................286
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................287
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server..............................................................................................................287
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................288
Specifying a Default Gateway................................................................................................................................ 289
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution..................................................................................................... 289
Using DNS for Address Resolution........................................................................................................................289
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution..................................................................................................... 290
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................290
Debugging the DHCP Server.................................................................................................................................290
Using DHCP Clear Commands............................................................................................................................... 291
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client................................................................................................................291
Conguring the DHCP Client System....................................................................................................................291
DHCP Client on a Management Interface............................................................................................................293
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features.......................................................................................................293
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)....................................................................................294
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................294
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................295
DHCP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................................295
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet............................................................................................................299
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................299
Dynamic ARP Inspection........................................................................................................................................ 300
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection....................................................................................................................301
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................ 302
Enabling IP Source Address Validation..................................................................................................................302
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................ 303
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation.......................................................................................................303
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets................................................................................................... 304
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets...................................................................................................304
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................305
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity.....................................................................................................................................305
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 305
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 305
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed.................................................................................................................. 306
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 306
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................307
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle.......................................................................................................................... 307
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................307
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Support for /128 IPv6 and /32 IPv4 Prexes in Layer 3 Host Table and LPM Table......................................308
Support for ECMP in host table............................................................................................................................ 309
Support for moving /128 IPv6 Prexes and /32 IPv4 Prexes ........................................................................ 309
RTAG7.............................................................................................................................................................................309
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP.................................................................................................................................... 310
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 313
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................313
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................313
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges...............................................................................................................................315
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack....................................................................................................................................317
Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................ 317
FIP Snooping Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................317
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 317
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature.........................................................................................................................318
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs............................................................................................................................. 319
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................. 319
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link........................................................................................................319
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link............................................................................................................319
Impact on Other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 319
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 320
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................320
Displaying FIP Snooping Information............................................................................................................................321
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................326
16 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................328
Flex Hash Capability Overview.....................................................................................................................................328
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................328
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover...................................................................................................329
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................329
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled..............................................................329
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism................................................................................330
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States...........................................................................331
LACP and IPv4 Routing...........................................................................................................................................331
LACP and IPv6 Routing...........................................................................................................................................331
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 332
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................332
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................332
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 332
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................332
Changes to BGP Multipath.....................................................................................................................................333
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................333
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................333
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 334
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 335
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Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................335
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 336
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 336
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 337
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 338
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................339
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 339
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................339
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................340
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs....................................................................................................... 341
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................342
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................342
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................342
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................342
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 343
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................343
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................343
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................344
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 345
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 346
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................347
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................347
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 348
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................348
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 349
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................349
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 349
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 350
19 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).......................................................................................... 351
IGMP Implementation Information............................................................................................................................... 351
IGMP Protocol Overview...............................................................................................................................................351
IGMP Version 2.........................................................................................................................................................351
IGMP Version 3........................................................................................................................................................ 353
Congure IGMP.............................................................................................................................................................356
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................356
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces............................................................................................................................... 357
Selecting an IGMP Version........................................................................................................................................... 357
Viewing IGMP Groups................................................................................................................................................... 357
Viewing IGMP Snooping Groups................................................................................................................................. 358
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 358
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 358
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave................................................................................................................................ 359
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................359
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information.......................................................................................................359
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Conguring IGMP Snooping.................................................................................................................................. 360
Removing a Group-Port Association.....................................................................................................................360
Disabling Multicast Flooding....................................................................................................................................361
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router....................................................................................... 361
Conguring the Switch as Querier.........................................................................................................................361
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................362
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................362
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................363
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 364
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 364
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac.......................................................................................................................365
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................366
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 366
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................366
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 367
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................368
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................369
Designating a Multicast Router Interface................................................................................................................... 370
20 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 371
Basic Interface Conguration........................................................................................................................................371
Advanced Interface Conguration................................................................................................................................371
Interface Types............................................................................................................................................................... 372
View Basic Interface Information................................................................................................................................. 372
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State................................................................................................... 374
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................375
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................375
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 375
40G to 1G Breakout Cable Adaptor....................................................................................................................... 375
Overview of Layer Modes.......................................................................................................................................376
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................376
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................377
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode................................................................................................................... 377
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................378
Egress Interface Selection (EIS).................................................................................................................................. 378
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................379
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 379
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................379
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................379
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................ 381
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................382
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 382
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 383
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 383
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................383
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................383
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Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................384
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 384
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................385
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 385
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................385
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 387
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 388
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 388
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 389
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................389
Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 390
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................390
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................391
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 391
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 391
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 393
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 393
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 393
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................393
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 394
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................395
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................397
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 397
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 398
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 398
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................402
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................402
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 402
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................403
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 404
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 405
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................405
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................406
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................407
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 407
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 407
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 408
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................409
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 410
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally............................................................................................................ 411
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 412
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 413
Compressing Conguration Files.................................................................................................................................. 413
21 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................. 417
IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................418
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Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 418
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 418
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface........................................................................................................................418
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................. 419
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................420
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages...................................................................................421
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface................................................................................................................ 421
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection......................................................................................... 421
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 422
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................422
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................422
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains....................................................................................423
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................423
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................424
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 424
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................424
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................425
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................425
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................425
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................426
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 426
Conguring ARP Retries............................................................................................................................................... 427
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................427
Conguration Tasks for ICMP...................................................................................................................................... 427
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages.......................................................................................................................427
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................428
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................428
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................428
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................428
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 429
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 429
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................429
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................430
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................430
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses.............................................................................................431
Troubleshooting UDP Helper.........................................................................................................................................431
22 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................432
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................432
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................433
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 433
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................433
Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support....................................................................434
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................435
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................437
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 438
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Implementing IPv6 with Dell Networking OS.............................................................................................................439
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................440
Path MTU Discovery......................................................................................................................................................441
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery...............................................................................................................................................441
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................442
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 442
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host ..................................................................................... 443
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................443
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 444
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 444
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................444
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................445
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................446
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................446
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................446
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 447
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information...............................................................................................................447
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................448
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface.........................................................................................449
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................450
Disabling ND Entry Timeout...................................................................................................................................450
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard..........................................................................................................................................450
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................452
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard..................................................................................................................................... 453
23 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................454
iSCSI Optimization Overview.......................................................................................................................................454
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................456
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 456
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................456
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays........................................................................... 457
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays............................................................................. 457
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................458
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................458
Default iSCSI Optimization Values...............................................................................................................................459
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 459
Conguring iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 459
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information.................................................................................................................. 461
24 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 463
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................463
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................463
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 464
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 464
Interface Support.................................................................................................................................................... 465
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................465
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Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................................ 465
Timers....................................................................................................................................................................... 465
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 465
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................466
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................467
Conguring the Distance of a Route..................................................................................................................... 474
Changing the IS-Type.............................................................................................................................................. 475
Redistributing IPv4 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 477
Redistributing IPv6 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 478
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................479
Setting the Overload Bit......................................................................................................................................... 479
Debugging IS-IS....................................................................................................................................................... 480
IS-IS Metric Styles..........................................................................................................................................................481
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................ 481
Maximum Values in the Routing Table................................................................................................................... 481
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only.................................................................................................481
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................483
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 484
25 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 486
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 486
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 486
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................487
Conguring LACP Commands............................................................................................................................... 487
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 488
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................488
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 488
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................489
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................489
Shared LAG State Tracking.......................................................................................................................................... 490
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking...............................................................................................................490
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 492
LACP Basic Conguration Example.............................................................................................................................492
Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 492
26 Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................... 501
Manage the MAC Address Table..................................................................................................................................501
Clearing the MAC Address Table............................................................................................................................501
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries.........................................................................................................501
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................502
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................502
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................502
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 503
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 503
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 503
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 504
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mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 504
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................504
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................505
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations...........................................................................505
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System................................................................................................ 506
NIC Teaming...................................................................................................................................................................506
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................507
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................509
Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................510
FEFD State Changes................................................................................................................................................ 511
Conguring FEFD..................................................................................................................................................... 512
Enabling FEFD on an Interface............................................................................................................................... 512
Debugging FEFD.......................................................................................................................................................513
27 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)...................................................................................................... 515
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................ 515
Protocol Data Units..................................................................................................................................................515
Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................516
Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 516
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................. 518
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs.........................................................................................................................518
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................522
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................522
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 522
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................523
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 523
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................523
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 524
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................524
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 524
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 524
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 526
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 526
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 527
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................528
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 528
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................529
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 530
28 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 535
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................535
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................535
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................536
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................536
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 536
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................536
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Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.....................................................................................................................537
29 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).........................................................................................538
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................538
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................539
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 540
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................540
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................540
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 544
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 545
Viewing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 545
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................545
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................546
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 546
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................546
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................549
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................550
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................550
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source................................................................................................... 551
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source.................................................................................................. 551
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................552
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................552
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................553
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................553
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................554
Conguring Anycast RP............................................................................................................................................... 555
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 556
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................556
MSDP Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 558
30 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................561
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................561
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 562
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 562
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................562
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................563
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 563
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................563
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 564
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection............................................................................................................................... 565
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................565
Changing the Region Name or Revision.....................................................................................................................566
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................566
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................567
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 568
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 569
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MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................569
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration....................................................................................... 570
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations.........................................................................................................573
31 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................575
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................575
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................575
Multicast Policies........................................................................................................................................................... 576
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................ 576
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 583
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 584
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 584
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................585
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................586
32 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................592
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................ 592
Track Layer 2 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................593
Track Layer 3 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................593
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes................................................................................................................................... 594
Set Tracking Delays................................................................................................................................................. 595
VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................ 595
Object Tracking Conguration..................................................................................................................................... 595
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface................................................................................................................................... 595
Tracking a Layer 3 Interface................................................................................................................................... 596
Track an IPv4/IPv6 Route...................................................................................................................................... 598
Displaying Tracked Objects........................................................................................................................................... 601
33 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)....................................................................................603
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................603
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 603
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 604
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................605
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 605
Designated and Backup Designated Routers....................................................................................................... 607
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................ 607
Router Priority and Cost.........................................................................................................................................608
OSPF with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................609
Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................................... 610
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)............................................................................................................... 611
Multi-Process OSPFv2 with VRF............................................................................................................................611
RFC-2328 Compliant OSPF Flooding.....................................................................................................................611
OSPF ACK Packing.................................................................................................................................................. 612
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers.......................................................................................................612
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................613
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