Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................... 350
Configuring EIS.................................................................................................................................................350
Management Interfaces........................................................................................................................................ 351
Configuring Management Interfaces............................................................................................................351
Configuring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port.................................................................... 353
VLAN Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 353
Loopback Interfaces..............................................................................................................................................354
Null Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................355
Port Channel Interfaces........................................................................................................................................ 355
Port Channel Definition and Standards....................................................................................................... 355
Port Channel Benefits......................................................................................................................................355
Port Channel Implementation.......................................................................................................................355
Interfaces in Port Channels............................................................................................................................356
Configuration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces......................................................................................356
Creating a Port Channel..................................................................................................................................357
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel...........................................................................................357
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel......................................................................................359
Configuring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel..................................................................359
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN...................................................................................360
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel................................................................................................. 361
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel...........................................................................................................361
Load Balancing Through Port Channels......................................................................................................361
Changing the Hash Algorithm.......................................................................................................................362
Bulk Configuration.................................................................................................................................................363
Interface Range.................................................................................................................................................363
Bulk Configuration Examples........................................................................................................................ 363
Defining Interface Range Macros....................................................................................................................... 365
Define the Interface Range............................................................................................................................ 365
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.......................................................................................................... 365
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces............................................................................................................. 365
Maintenance Using TDR................................................................................................................................. 366
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload....................................................................................................................367
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.....................................................................................................................368
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..........................................................................369
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................... 370
Example Scenarios........................................................................................................................................... 370
Configuring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics..................................................................................... 371
Link Dampening...................................................................................................................................................... 371
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................372
Enabling Link Dampening...............................................................................................................................372
Link Bundle Monitoring.........................................................................................................................................373
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.............................................................................................. 374
Enabling Pause Frames....................................................................................................................................375
Configure the MTU Size on an Interface...........................................................................................................375
Port-Pipes................................................................................................................................................................ 376
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces......................................................................................................... 376
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................377
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