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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module
Conguration Guide
9.14.0.0
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2018 - 07
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................33
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................33
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................33
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................33
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 34
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................35
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 35
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................35
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 35
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................36
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................36
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 36
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................37
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................ 37
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................... 37
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................ 37
Link Aggregation.............................................................................................................................................................. 38
Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................38
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 38
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................39
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 40
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................40
CLI Modes......................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................41
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................50
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................50
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Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................50
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................50
Boot Process.....................................................................................................................................................................51
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................53
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................53
Accessing the Switch Remotely...............................................................................................................................53
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 53
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................54
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 54
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................55
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................55
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 56
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................57
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................58
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 59
View the Command History........................................................................................................................................... 60
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 60
Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS.................................................................................................61
Verify Software Images Before Installation....................................................................................................................61
Deploying FN I/O Module............................................................................................................................................... 62
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................63
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................ 63
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................65
Verifying the Congurations.....................................................................................................................................65
5 Management................................................................................................................................................67
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................67
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................68
Customizing a Privilege Level...................................................................................................................................68
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 70
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 70
Conguring Logging.........................................................................................................................................................70
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................. 71
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................72
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................73
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 74
Log Messages in the Internal Buer.............................................................................................................................. 74
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 75
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 75
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................75
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................75
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................76
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 77
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level.................................................................................................................... 77
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Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 78
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 79
Enabling Secure Management Mode............................................................................................................................ 79
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 80
File Transfer Services...................................................................................................................................................... 80
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................80
Enabling the FTP Server...........................................................................................................................................80
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................ 81
Conguring FTP Client Parameters..........................................................................................................................81
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 82
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................82
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................82
Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode...................................................................................................................83
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................84
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 84
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................85
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................85
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 85
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................85
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 86
Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................87
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................87
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 87
Display Login Statistics.............................................................................................................................................. 87
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 89
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.......................................................................................................... 90
Recovering from a Failed Start...................................................................................................................................... 90
6 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................92
The Port-Authentication Process.................................................................................................................................. 95
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................96
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................96
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 96
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................97
Enabling 802.1X.................................................................................................................................................................97
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions.....................................................................................................98
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 99
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port..............................................................................................................100
Re-Authenticating a Port............................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Timeouts..................................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication......................................................................... 102
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs...................................................................................................................103
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................104
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 104
7 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................106
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Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 106
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN groups............................................................................................................ 107
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................108
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 108
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................109
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 109
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes....................................................................................................................111
8 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................112
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................113
Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS........................................................................................................... 114
ACLs and VLANs.............................................................................................................................................................114
ACL Optimization............................................................................................................................................................ 114
Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac..............................................................................114
Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence..............................................................................114
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 115
IP Fragments ACL Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................116
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter............................................................................................................................ 117
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number..............................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 119
Established Flag...............................................................................................................................................................119
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 119
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................120
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................120
Counting ACL Hits...........................................................................................................................................................121
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 121
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 122
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).......................................................................................................... 122
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 123
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 123
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists........................................................................................................................ 123
Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................124
Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................. 124
Viewing Prex Lists........................................................................................................................................................125
Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution...........................................................................................................126
Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)......................................................................................................................126
ACL Remarks...................................................................................................................................................................127
Conguring a Remark...............................................................................................................................................127
Deleting a Remark.................................................................................................................................................... 128
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 128
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.............................................................................................................................129
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................130
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 130
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Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 130
Conguration Task List for Route Maps...................................................................................................................... 130
Creating a Route Map.....................................................................................................................................................131
Congure Route Map Filters......................................................................................................................................... 132
Conguring Match Routes............................................................................................................................................ 133
Conguring Set Conditions........................................................................................................................................... 133
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.......................................................................................................134
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging................................................................................................................. 135
Continue Clause..............................................................................................................................................................135
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 135
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................136
Conguring ACL Logging...............................................................................................................................................137
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 137
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................137
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................139
9 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)...................................................................................................141
How BFD Works.............................................................................................................................................................. 141
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................142
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 143
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 144
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................146
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 146
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 146
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................147
Enabling BFD Globally.............................................................................................................................................. 147
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 148
Disabling and Re-Enabling BFD.............................................................................................................................. 148
Congure BFD for Static Routes..................................................................................................................................149
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................149
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes.................................................................................................................149
Establishing Static Route Sessions on Specic Neighbors................................................................................. 150
Changing Static Route Session Parameters.......................................................................................................... 151
Disabling BFD for Static Routes.............................................................................................................................. 151
Congure BFD for OSPF................................................................................................................................................151
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................152
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors........................................................................................................ 152
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors for nondefault VRFs....................................................................153
Changing OSPF Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................154
Disabling BFD for OSPF.......................................................................................................................................... 154
Congure BFD for OSPFv3...........................................................................................................................................154
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................155
Establishing Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors....................................................................................................155
Establishing BFD Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors for nondefault VRFs....................................................... 155
Changing OSPFv3 Session Parameters................................................................................................................ 156
Disabling BFD for OSPFv3.......................................................................................................................................157
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Congure BFD for BGP................................................................................................................................................. 157
Prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................................157
Establishing Sessions with BGP Neighbors...........................................................................................................157
Disabling BFD for BGP.............................................................................................................................................162
Use BFD in a BGP Peer Group............................................................................................................................... 162
Displaying BFD for BGP Information...................................................................................................................... 162
Congure BFD for VRRP...............................................................................................................................................166
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................166
Establishing Sessions with All VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................... 167
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................167
Changing VRRP Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................168
Disabling BFD for VRRP.......................................................................................................................................... 168
Congure BFD for VLANs.............................................................................................................................................169
Related Conguration Task..................................................................................................................................... 169
Establish Sessions with VLAN Neighbors..............................................................................................................170
Changing VLAN Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................170
Disabling BFD for VLANs..........................................................................................................................................171
Congure BFD for Port-Channels.................................................................................................................................171
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................171
Establish Sessions on Port-Channels.....................................................................................................................172
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters.........................................................................................................172
Disabling BFD for Port-Channels............................................................................................................................173
Conguring Protocol Liveness...................................................................................................................................... 173
10 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)................................................................................................... 174
Autonomous Systems (AS)............................................................................................................................................174
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................176
Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 176
Route Reectors............................................................................................................................................................. 177
Communities..............................................................................................................................................................178
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................178
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 178
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................180
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................180
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)........................................................................................................................... 181
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................182
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................183
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 183
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................183
Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................184
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................184
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 184
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations............................................................................................. 185
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 185
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 185
AS Number Migration...............................................................................................................................................187
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BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................188
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 188
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................189
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 189
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 190
Enabling MBGP Congurations.............................................................................................................................. 221
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................ 223
Debugging BGP..............................................................................................................................................................223
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................224
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 225
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 225
11 Conguration Cloning............................................................................................................................... 234
Cloning Conguration Output Status..........................................................................................................................234
12 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 237
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................237
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................238
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 238
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................239
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 239
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 240
13 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 241
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 242
Conguring CoPP for Protocols.............................................................................................................................243
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 244
Show Commands.....................................................................................................................................................245
14 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 247
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 247
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................247
Priority-Based Flow Control......................................................................................................................................... 248
Enhanced Transmission Selection................................................................................................................................249
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)......................................................................................................251
Creating a DCB Map...................................................................................................................................................... 251
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 251
Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports..................................................................................... 252
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................252
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow........................................................................................................................ 253
Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode........................................................................................................ 253
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................255
How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented...............................................................................................257
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................257
Conguring the PFC Buer in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................... 258
Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection.......................................................................................................... 259
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How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented..................................................................................... 259
ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................260
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 260
DCBx Operation..............................................................................................................................................................261
DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................................261
DCBx Port Roles.......................................................................................................................................................261
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 262
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................263
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................263
Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version.................................................................................................................... 264
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................264
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................265
DCBx Error Messages.............................................................................................................................................266
Debugging DCBx on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 266
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 266
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment.......................................................................................... 275
Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation...................................................................................................... 275
15 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 278
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 278
Assigning an IP Address using DHCP.......................................................................................................................... 278
Debugging DHCP Client Operation............................................................................................................................. 280
DHCP Client.................................................................................................................................................................... 281
How DHCP Client is Implemented...............................................................................................................................282
DHCP Client on a Management Interface..................................................................................................................282
DHCP Client on a VLAN............................................................................................................................................... 283
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 283
Option 82........................................................................................................................................................................284
Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses................................................................................................285
Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information.......................................................................................................285
DHCP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................................286
DHCP Snooping for a Multi-Tenant Host..............................................................................................................286
DHCP Snooping in a VLT Setup.............................................................................................................................287
Enabling DHCP Snooping........................................................................................................................................287
Enabling IPv6 DHCP Snooping...............................................................................................................................287
Adding a Static Entry in the Binding Table............................................................................................................287
Adding a Static IPV6 DHCP Snooping Binding Table.......................................................................................... 288
Clearing the Binding Table...................................................................................................................................... 288
Clearing the DHCP IPv6 Binding Table................................................................................................................. 288
Displaying the Contents of the Binding Table.......................................................................................................288
Displaying the Contents of the DHCPv6 Binding Table...................................................................................... 289
Debugging the IPv6 DHCP.....................................................................................................................................289
IPv6 DHCP Snooping MAC-Address Verication................................................................................................290
16 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).................................................................................................................291
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity......................................................................................................................................291
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Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop............................................................................................................... 291
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 291
Managing ECMP Group Paths.....................................................................................................................................292
17 FC FPORT................................................................................................................................................293
FC FPORT...................................................................................................................................................................... 294
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode............................................................................................................294
Name Server.................................................................................................................................................................. 295
FCoE Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................296
Creating an FCoE Map..................................................................................................................................................296
Zoning..............................................................................................................................................................................297
Creating Zone and Adding Members...........................................................................................................................298
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members..................................................................................................................298
Creating Zonesets..........................................................................................................................................................298
Activating a Zoneset..................................................................................................................................................... 299
Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................ 299
18 FCoE Transit.............................................................................................................................................302
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................302
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 302
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................302
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................304
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................305
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 306
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 306
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................306
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................306
Congure the FC-MAP Value.................................................................................................................................307
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 307
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link........................................................................................................... 307
Impact on Other Software Features......................................................................................................................307
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................308
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 308
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................308
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................309
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 314
19 FIPS Cryptography................................................................................................................................... 316
Preparing the System.................................................................................................................................................... 316
Enabling FIPS Mode.......................................................................................................................................................316
Generating Host-Keys....................................................................................................................................................317
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status.......................................................................................................................................317
Disabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 318
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 319
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................319
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Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 320
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 321
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................322
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 323
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................324
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................324
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................324
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 324
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................326
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 327
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 327
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 327
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................327
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 328
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................328
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................328
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................330
Example Scenario..................................................................................................................................................... 331
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................332
21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).............................................................................................. 333
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................333
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 333
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 334
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 334
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................335
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 335
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 336
22 FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................... 337
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 337
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................337
Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network......................................................................................... 337
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 339
How FIP Snooping is Implemented..............................................................................................................................340
FIP Snooping on VLANs......................................................................................................................................... 340
FC-MAP Value.......................................................................................................................................................... 341
Bridge-to-FCF Links.................................................................................................................................................341
Impact on other Software Features.......................................................................................................................341
FIP Snooping Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................341
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 342
Conguring FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................342
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................343
FIP Snooping Example.................................................................................................................................................. 348
Debugging FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................. 348
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23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................350
IGMP Overview............................................................................................................................................................. 350
IGMP Version 2..............................................................................................................................................................350
Joining a Multicast Group........................................................................................................................................351
Leaving a Multicast Group.......................................................................................................................................351
IGMP Version 3...............................................................................................................................................................351
Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources............................................................................................................ 352
Leaving and Staying in Groups...............................................................................................................................353
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................354
How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator.......................................................................................... 354
Disabling Multicast Flooding.........................................................................................................................................354
Displaying IGMP Information........................................................................................................................................354
24 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................357
Basic Interface Conguration....................................................................................................................................... 357
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................357
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................358
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................358
Conguring the Default Interface................................................................................................................................360
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................ 361
Physical Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................... 361
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.....................................................................................................361
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 362
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................362
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 363
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................363
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 364
Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface....................................................................................................... 364
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................365
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................365
Conguring Management Interfaces on the Switch........................................................................................... 366
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................367
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 368
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 368
VLAN Membership........................................................................................................................................................ 368
Default VLAN .......................................................................................................................................................... 369
Port-Based VLANs.................................................................................................................................................. 369
VLANs and Port Tagging........................................................................................................................................ 369
Conguring VLAN Membership............................................................................................................................. 370
Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................370
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN................................................................................................................. 371
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN...........................................................................................................371
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................372
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 373
Port Channel Denition and Standards................................................................................................................. 373
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Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 374
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 374
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels........................................................................................... 374
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................375
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................375
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................375
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 377
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................378
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................378
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................379
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 379
Load Balancing through Port Channels.......................................................................................................................379
Changing the Hash Algorithm...................................................................................................................................... 379
Server Ports................................................................................................................................................................... 380
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong................................................................................................... 380
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 381
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 381
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................382
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 383
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 383
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 383
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................384
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................385
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 385
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports.............................................................................................................386
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface..............................................................................................................386
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 387
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 387
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 388
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................388
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames................................................................................................ 388
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 389
Congure MTU Size on an Interface...........................................................................................................................389
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................390
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................390
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................390
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................392
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 393
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.....................................................................................................394
Dynamic Counters................................................................................................................................................... 395
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing....................................................................................... 396
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 398
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................398
26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................400
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IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................400
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 401
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.................................................................................................................... 401
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 403
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................404
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 404
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 404
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 405
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................405
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names......................................................................................................405
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains............................................................................. 406
Conguring DNS with Traceroute......................................................................................................................... 406
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................407
Conguration Tasks for ARP.................................................................................................................................. 407
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP............................................................................................................................... 409
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 409
Conguring ARP Retries................................................................................................................................................410
ICMP.................................................................................................................................................................................411
Conguration Tasks for ICMP..................................................................................................................................411
UDP Helper...................................................................................................................................................................... 411
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................. 411
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................... 411
Enabling UDP Helper................................................................................................................................................412
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 412
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses............................................................................................................412
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses....................................................................................................413
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.............................................................................................413
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses.......................................................................................414
Troubleshooting UDP Helper.........................................................................................................................................414
27 IPv6 Routing.............................................................................................................................................416
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................416
Extended Address Space.........................................................................................................................................417
Stateless Autoconguration.................................................................................................................................... 417
IPv6 Header Fields......................................................................................................................................................... 418
Version (4 bits)..........................................................................................................................................................418
Trac Class (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................. 418
Flow Label (20 bits)..................................................................................................................................................418
Payload Length (16 bits)..........................................................................................................................................418
Next Header (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................419
Hop Limit (8 bits)......................................................................................................................................................419
Source Address (128 bits).......................................................................................................................................420
Destination Address (128 bits)............................................................................................................................... 420
Extension Header Fields................................................................................................................................................420
Hop-by-Hop Options Header................................................................................................................................. 420
Addressing....................................................................................................................................................................... 421
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Link-local Addresses.................................................................................................................................................421
Static and Dynamic Addressing.............................................................................................................................. 421
Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................... 422
ICMPv6........................................................................................................................................................................... 423
Path MTU Discovery..................................................................................................................................................... 424
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 424
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................425
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.................................................................................................................... 425
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 425
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................426
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................426
IPv6 Multicast................................................................................................................................................................ 426
Conguration Task List for IPv6................................................................................................................................... 427
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole.................................................................................................................................... 427
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface........................................................................................................... 428
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................428
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................429
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................429
Showing IPv6 Information...................................................................................................................................... 429
Showing an IPv6 Interface..................................................................................................................................... 430
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................430
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................431
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................432
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 432
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 432
28 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................433
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................433
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 433
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows.....................................................................................................................................434
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.............................................................................................................435
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.......................................................................435
iSCSI Optimization: Operation..................................................................................................................................... 435
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................436
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................437
29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 439
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................439
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................439
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 440
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 440
Interface Support..................................................................................................................................................... 441
Adjacencies................................................................................................................................................................441
Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................................. 441
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................ 441
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................442
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Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................442
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................443
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................457
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................457
Maximum Values in the Routing Table...................................................................................................................457
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................457
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................459
Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................................460
30 Isolated Networks for Aggregators.......................................................................................................... 464
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings............................................................................................... 464
31 Link Aggregation...................................................................................................................................... 465
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................465
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator.....................................................................................................465
Uplink LAG................................................................................................................................................................466
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................ 466
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 466
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................466
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).................................................................................................................467
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 467
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................467
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................467
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................469
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 470
Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces...................................................................................................470
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................471
Conguring Auto LAG....................................................................................................................................................471
Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active.............................................473
Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode.............................................. 474
Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage........................................................................ 474
Enabling LACP link-fallback...........................................................................................................................................474
Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle..................................................................475
Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle.........................................................................................................475
Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration.................................................................................................... 476
Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports...........................................................................................................478
32 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................480
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................480
Managing the MAC Address Table.............................................................................................................................. 480
Clearing the MAC Address Entries........................................................................................................................480
Displaying the MAC Address Table.........................................................................................................................481
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System................................................................................................. 481
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming............................................................................................................. 482
MAC Address Station Move...................................................................................................................................482
MAC Move Optimization........................................................................................................................................ 483
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33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 484
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................484
Protocol Data Units....................................................................................................................................................... 484
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................486
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................486
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 486
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 486
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................ 487
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 487
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 487
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 488
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 488
IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs......................................................................................................................489
LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV...................................................................................................................................490
LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV..........................................................................................................................491
Extended Power via MDI TLV................................................................................................................................ 492
LLDP Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 492
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs......................................................................................................... 493
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 493
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.............................................................................................. 493
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 494
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 494
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 494
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................495
Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................496
Clearing LLDP Counters............................................................................................................................................... 496
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................ 497
Relevant Management Objects....................................................................................................................................497
34 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 503
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................503
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................503
Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches..............................................................................................................504
Benets and Working of Microsoft Clustering...........................................................................................................504
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 504
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................504
Multicast NLB Mode...............................................................................................................................................505
35 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).........................................................................................506
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................506
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................508
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 509
Congure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol.................................................................................................509
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................509
Enabling MSDP...............................................................................................................................................................513
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Manage the Source-Active Cache...............................................................................................................................514
Viewing the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 514
Limiting the Source-Active Cache..........................................................................................................................514
Clearing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................515
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................515
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check...................................................................................... 515
Specifying Source-Active Messages........................................................................................................................... 519
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................520
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................520
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source...................................................................................................521
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source.................................................................................................. 521
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................522
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................522
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................523
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 523
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................524
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................525
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................526
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 526
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................528
36 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 531
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................531
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................532
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................532
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................532
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................533
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 533
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 533
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................534
Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges................................................................................................. 535
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 535
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 536
Enable BPDU Filtering Globally.....................................................................................................................................537
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................537
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 538
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 539
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................539
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................540
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 543
37 Multicast Features................................................................................................................................... 545
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................545
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 545
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast.........................................................................................................546
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Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................546
IPv4 Multicast Policies..................................................................................................................................................546
Limiting the Number of Multicast Routes.............................................................................................................547
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group...............................................................................................................547
Rate Limiting IGMP Join Requests........................................................................................................................550
Preventing a PIM Router from Forming an Adjacency....................................................................................... 550
Preventing a Source from Registering with the RP............................................................................................550
Preventing a PIM Router from Processing a Join............................................................................................... 553
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 553
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 554
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 554
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................555
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................556
38 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)....................................................................................562
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................562
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 562
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 563
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................564
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 564
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................566
Router Priority and Cost......................................................................................................................................... 567
OSPF with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................568
Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................................................... 569
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only).............................................................................................................. 570
Processing SNMP and Sending SNMP Traps......................................................................................................570
OSPF ACK Packing................................................................................................................................................. 570
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers...................................................................................................... 570
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................571
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)......................................................................................... 571
Troubleshooting OSPFv2........................................................................................................................................582
OSPFv3 NSSA............................................................................................................................................................... 586
NSSA Options..........................................................................................................................................................586
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6).............................................................................................. 586
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing...............................................................................................................................587
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface............................................................................................................587
Assigning Area ID on an Interface..........................................................................................................................588
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally........................................................................................588
Conguring Stub Areas...........................................................................................................................................589
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................589
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................589
Conguring a Default Route...................................................................................................................................590
Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................... 590
Displaying Graceful Restart.....................................................................................................................................591
OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec.....................................................................................................................592
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