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Dell Conguration Guide for the S4810 System
9.14(1.0)
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2018 - 11
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................35
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................35
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 35
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 36
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................36
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................36
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 38
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................41
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................42
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 43
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 43
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................44
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................45
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................46
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................46
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................47
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................47
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................ 47
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 48
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 48
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................48
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................48
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 48
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................49
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 49
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................50
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................50
Copy Files to and from the System.......................................................................................................................... 51
Mounting an NFS File System...................................................................................................................................51
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................53
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 54
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................54
Compressing Conguration Files............................................................................................................................. 55
Managing the File System...............................................................................................................................................57
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option..........................................................................58
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 58
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Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................ 59
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 60
4 Management................................................................................................................................................ 61
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................ 61
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................62
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 62
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................62
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................62
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................62
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 64
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 64
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 64
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 65
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................67
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration.................................................................................. 67
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................68
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server......................................................................................................69
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 69
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 69
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 69
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................70
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions.....................................................................................................................................71
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................. 71
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................72
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 72
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................73
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................73
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 73
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 73
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 74
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server..................................................................................................... 74
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................74
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 75
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................76
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 77
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 77
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................78
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................78
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 78
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................78
Conguring FTP Client Parameters.........................................................................................................................79
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................80
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines..............................................................................................81
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Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 82
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................82
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 83
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................83
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 83
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.....................................................................................................84
Recovering from a Failed Start...................................................................................................................................... 85
Restoring the Factory Default Settings........................................................................................................................ 86
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................86
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables................................................................................................. 86
Dell EMC Networking OS Security Hardening............................................................................................................. 87
Dell EMC Networking OS Image Verication......................................................................................................... 88
Startup Conguration Verication........................................................................................................................... 89
Conguring the root User Password.......................................................................................................................90
Locking Access to GRUB Interface......................................................................................................................... 90
Enabling User Lockout for Failed Login Attempts.................................................................................................. 91
5 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................92
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................94
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................95
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................95
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................95
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 96
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole............................................................................................................. 97
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions...........................................................................................................98
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 98
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 99
Re-Authenticating a Port.............................................................................................................................................. 100
Conguring Timeouts..................................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication......................................................................... 102
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs......................................................................................................................... 103
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................103
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 103
Conguring dot1x Prole .............................................................................................................................................. 104
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole ........................................................................................................... 105
Conguring Critical VLAN ............................................................................................................................................ 106
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................107
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 107
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups........................................................................................................... 108
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....................................................................................................................................................... 110
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes....................................................................................................................111
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7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................113
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................114
CAM Usage................................................................................................................................................................115
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................ 115
Important Points to Remember..................................................................................................................................... 117
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................. 117
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................119
Conguring Set Conditions......................................................................................................................................121
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.................................................................................................122
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................122
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................123
IP Fragment Handling.....................................................................................................................................................123
IP Fragments ACL Examples...................................................................................................................................123
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples...................................................................................................................................124
Congure a Standard IP ACL........................................................................................................................................ 124
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter.....................................................................................................................125
Congure an Extended IP ACL..................................................................................................................................... 126
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 126
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................128
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................128
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................129
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................129
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................130
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 130
Congure Egress ACLs...................................................................................................................................................131
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 132
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 132
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 133
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 133
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 136
Conguring a Remark.............................................................................................................................................. 136
Deleting a Remark.....................................................................................................................................................137
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 138
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................138
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................139
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 139
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 140
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging.................................................................................................................141
Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................................... 141
Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................142
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................142
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................143
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 145
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 145
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BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................146
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 147
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 148
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................150
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................150
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 150
Congure BFD for Physical Ports........................................................................................................................... 151
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................152
Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................155
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................159
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................162
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 164
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................172
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................ 175
Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................175
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes for Default VRF.....................................................................................176
9 BGP IP version 4 (BGPv4) Overview..........................................................................................................179
BGP Autonomous Systems........................................................................................................................................... 179
Sessions and Peers......................................................................................................................................................... 181
Establish a Session....................................................................................................................................................181
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................182
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path.......................................................................................................................183
Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................183
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................185
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................185
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................186
Origin.......................................................................................................................................................................... 187
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................188
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 188
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................188
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS.........................................................................................................189
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................189
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 189
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................190
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 190
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 190
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 192
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................193
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 193
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................194
Enabling BGP.................................................................................................................................................................. 194
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 195
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 197
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................199
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................201
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Conguring Passive Peering...................................................................................................................................202
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................ 203
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path...................................................................................... 204
Enabling Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................205
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart......................................................................................................................206
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................206
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute.......................................................................................................................... 208
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................209
Redistributing Routes...............................................................................................................................................210
Enabling Additional Paths......................................................................................................................................... 211
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................. 212
Conguring an IP Extended Community List........................................................................................................ 213
Filtering Routes with Community Lists.................................................................................................................. 214
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.............................................................................................................215
Changing MED Attributes....................................................................................................................................... 216
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute...................................................................................................217
Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............. 217
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................218
Enabling Multipath....................................................................................................................................................218
Filtering BGP Routes................................................................................................................................................219
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................219
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information..............................................................................................220
Conguring BGP Route Reectors........................................................................................................................ 221
Aggregating Routes.................................................................................................................................................222
Conguring BGP Confederations.......................................................................................................................... 222
Enabling Route Flap Dampening............................................................................................................................ 223
Changing BGP keepalive and hold timers.............................................................................................................225
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration............................................................................................................... 226
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................227
Route Map Continue............................................................................................................................................... 228
Enabling MBGP Congurations................................................................................................................................... 229
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor......................................... 229
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................231
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 231
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................232
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 233
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 234
Example-Conguring BGP peer groups......................................................................................................................234
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 241
CAM Allocation............................................................................................................................................................... 241
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................ 243
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 243
View CAM Usage...........................................................................................................................................................245
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................245
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 245
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CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 246
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................247
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................247
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 248
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 249
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 250
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 252
CoPP for OSPFv3 Packets.....................................................................................................................................253
Conguring CoPP for OSPFv3.............................................................................................................................. 256
Displaying CoPP Conguration .............................................................................................................................256
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 259
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 259
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 260
Enhanced Transmission Selection.......................................................................................................................... 261
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................262
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow...................................................................................................................263
Enabling Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................................................... 263
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................264
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................265
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................266
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................266
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................267
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 268
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................268
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................269
Applying a DCB Map on a Port....................................................................................................................................269
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................270
Pause and Resume of Trac..................................................................................................................................270
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets.............................................................................................................270
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map..........................................................................................................................271
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:...................................................................................................................271
Behavior of Tagged Packets......................................................................................................................................... 273
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................ 273
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................274
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................274
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................274
Creating an ETS Priority Group..............................................................................................................................275
ETS Operation with DCBx...................................................................................................................................... 276
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN.................................................................................................276
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................277
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies................................................................................................... 278
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac............................................................................................. 279
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 279
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................ 279
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DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 279
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 280
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................. 281
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................ 281
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................282
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version...................................................................... 282
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................283
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................283
Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................284
Verifying the DCB Conguration..................................................................................................................................287
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................296
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................................................297
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................298
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples.............................................................................................. 300
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)..........................................................................................301
DHCP Packet Format and Options.............................................................................................................................. 301
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................303
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................304
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server............................................................................................................. 304
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................305
Specifying a Default Gateway................................................................................................................................306
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution..................................................................................................... 306
Using DNS for Address Resolution........................................................................................................................306
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution......................................................................................................307
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................307
Debugging the DHCP Server................................................................................................................................. 307
Using DHCP Clear Commands.............................................................................................................................. 308
Congure the System to be a Relay Agent................................................................................................................ 308
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client................................................................................................................310
Conguring the DHCP Client System....................................................................................................................310
DHCP Client on a Management Interface..............................................................................................................311
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features........................................................................................................312
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230).................................................................................... 313
Conguring DHCP relay source interface....................................................................................................................313
Global DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ........................................................................................ 313
Interface level DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ...........................................................................314
Congure Secure DHCP................................................................................................................................................315
Option 82...................................................................................................................................................................315
DHCP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................316
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet.............................................................................................................321
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only.....................................................................................................321
Dynamic ARP Inspection.........................................................................................................................................322
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection................................................................................................................... 322
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................ 324
Enabling IP Source Address Validation.................................................................................................................. 324
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DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................ 325
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation.......................................................................................................325
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................326
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets...................................................................................................326
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 327
Conguring the Hash Algorithm...................................................................................................................................327
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.....................................................................................................................327
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed.........................................................................................................................327
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 328
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................328
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle.......................................................................................................................... 329
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................329
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 331
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................331
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................331
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 333
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................335
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 335
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................335
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 335
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................336
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs............................................................................................................................. 337
Congure the FC-MAP Value.................................................................................................................................337
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 337
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link........................................................................................................... 337
Impact on Other Software Features......................................................................................................................337
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 338
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................338
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................339
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................344
16 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................346
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 346
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................346
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 347
Generating Host-Keys................................................................................................................................................... 347
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................347
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 348
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 349
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................349
Ring Status...............................................................................................................................................................350
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 350
Important FRRP Points............................................................................................................................................351
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Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 352
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................353
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 353
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................353
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................354
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs...................................................................................................... 355
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................356
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................356
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................356
Viewing the FRRP Information.............................................................................................................................. 356
Troubleshooting FRRP...................................................................................................................................................357
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................357
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................357
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................358
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 359
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 360
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).............................................................................................. 361
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 361
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 362
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................362
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 363
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................363
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 363
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 364
RPM Redundancy..........................................................................................................................................................364
19 High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................................... 366
Component Redundancy.............................................................................................................................................. 366
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover.......................................................................................................... 366
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units.............................................................................. 367
Forcing a Stack Unit Failover..................................................................................................................................367
Specifying an Auto-Failover Limit.......................................................................................................................... 368
Disabling Auto-Reboot............................................................................................................................................ 368
Manually Synchronizing Management and Standby Units................................................................................. 368
Pre-Conguring a Stack Unit Slot............................................................................................................................... 368
Removing a Provisioned Logical Stack Unit............................................................................................................... 369
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 369
Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................................ 369
Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 370
Software Component Health Monitoring..............................................................................................................370
System Health Monitoring...................................................................................................................................... 370
Failure and Event Logging.......................................................................................................................................370
Hot-Lock Behavior..........................................................................................................................................................371
20 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 372
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IGMP Implementation Information...............................................................................................................................372
IGMP Protocol Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 372
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 372
IGMP Version 3.........................................................................................................................................................374
Congure IGMP..............................................................................................................................................................377
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 377
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces............................................................................................................................... 378
Selecting an IGMP Version........................................................................................................................................... 378
Viewing IGMP Groups................................................................................................................................................... 379
Adjusting Timers.............................................................................................................................................................379
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 379
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group.................................................................................................................... 380
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................383
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................383
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 383
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................383
Removing a Group-Port Association.....................................................................................................................384
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................384
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 385
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 385
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................386
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................386
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................386
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 387
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 388
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 389
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................389
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 390
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................390
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac .............................................................................391
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................392
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................393
Designating a Multicast Router Interface................................................................................................................... 393
21 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................395
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................395
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................395
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................396
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................396
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................398
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................398
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................399
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................399
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 399
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode................................................................................................................. 400
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 400
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Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................400
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode................................................................................................................... 401
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................402
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 402
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 402
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................403
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................403
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port............................................................................... 404
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 405
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................406
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 406
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................406
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................407
Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 407
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................407
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 408
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................408
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 408
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................409
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................410
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel................................................................................411
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN...............................................................................................411
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel........................................................................................................... 412
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................413
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 413
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................413
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 414
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 414
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 415
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................416
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 416
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro..................................................................................................................... 417
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 417
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................418
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers....................................................................................................................................418
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................419
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................420
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 420
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................420
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................424
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................424
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 425
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................425
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................ 427
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 428
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Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 429
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 429
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................430
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................431
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................431
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................. 431
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................432
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................433
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 434
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.....................................................................................................435
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 436
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................437
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)...........................................................................................................438
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................438
23 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................440
IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................441
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 441
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 441
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface........................................................................................................................441
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................442
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 443
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 444
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................444
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................444
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 444
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 445
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 445
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................445
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................446
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 446
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................447
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................447
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 448
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................448
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................448
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................449
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................449
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................449
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 449
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................450
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................ 451
Conguration Tasks for ICMP.......................................................................................................................................451
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages....................................................................................................................... 451
UDP Helper..................................................................................................................................................................... 451
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Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................. 451
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 452
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................452
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 452
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................452
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................453
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................454
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................454
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................454
24 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................456
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................456
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................457
Stateless Autoconguration....................................................................................................................................457
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................457
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................458
Extension Header Fields......................................................................................................................................... 460
Addressing.................................................................................................................................................................461
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................... 462
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................463
Path MTU discovery......................................................................................................................................................464
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 464
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets.......................................................................................................... 465
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.................................................................................................................... 465
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 465
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................466
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................467
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 467
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 468
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................468
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................469
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................469
Conguring Telnet with IPv6.................................................................................................................................. 470
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................470
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 470
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information............................................................................................................... 471
Showing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................471
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 473
Clearing IPv6 Routes............................................................................................................................................... 473
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 473
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard...........................................................................................................................................474
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface......................................................................................................... 475
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard......................................................................................................................................476
25 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................477
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 477
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Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows............................................................................................................................... 479
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows......................................................................................479
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows....................................................................................................... 479
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................480
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................480
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer..................................................................481
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization..................................................................................................................481
Default iSCSI Optimization Values............................................................................................................................... 482
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 482
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................482
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................484
26 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 486
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 486
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................486
Multi-Topology IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................487
Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................487
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................488
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................488
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................488
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................488
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................488
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................489
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................490
Conguring the Distance of a Route..................................................................................................................... 497
Changing the IS-Type..............................................................................................................................................498
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................500
Redistributing IPv6 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 501
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................502
Setting the Overload Bit......................................................................................................................................... 502
Debugging IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................503
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................504
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 504
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 504
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................504
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................506
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 507
27 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 509
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 509
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 509
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................510
Conguring LACP Commands................................................................................................................................510
LACP Conguration Tasks..............................................................................................................................................511
Creating a LAG.......................................................................................................................................................... 511
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic..........................................................................................................511
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Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................ 512
Monitoring and Debugging LACP...........................................................................................................................512
Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................................................................... 513
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking................................................................................................................513
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................515
LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................. 515
Congure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................515
28 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................524
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 524
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 524
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................524
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................525
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 525
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................525
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 526
mac learning-limit Dynamic.....................................................................................................................................526
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 526
mac learning-limit station-move.............................................................................................................................527
mac learning-limit no-station-move.......................................................................................................................527
Learning Limit Violation Actions............................................................................................................................. 527
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 528
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations........................................................................... 528
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................529
Enabling port security............................................................................................................................................. 529
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 529
Congure Redundant Pairs.......................................................................................................................................... 530
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 532
Far-End Failure Detection.............................................................................................................................................533
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................534
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 535
Enabling FEFD on an Interface.............................................................................................................................. 535
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................536
29 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 538
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................538
Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 538
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................539
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 539
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................. 541
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs.........................................................................................................................541
Congure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................. 545
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................545
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 545
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................546
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 546
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Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................546
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 547
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................547
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 547
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 547
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 549
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................549
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors.............................................................................. 549
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals......................................................................................................................................551
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................552
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 552
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................553
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 554
30 Microsoft Network Load Balancing..........................................................................................................560
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................560
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................560
Limitations of the NLB Feature.................................................................................................................................... 561
Microsoft Clustering...................................................................................................................................................... 561
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................. 561
Conguring a Switch for NLB ......................................................................................................................................561
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 562
31 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)..........................................................................................563
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................563
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................564
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 565
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................565
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................565
Enable MSDP.................................................................................................................................................................569
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 570
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................570
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................570
Clearing the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 571
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................ 571
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check.......................................................................................571
Specifying Source-Active Messages........................................................................................................................... 574
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................575
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................575
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 576
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................576
Logging Changes in Peership States........................................................................................................................... 577
Terminating a Peership.................................................................................................................................................. 577
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................578
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 578
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................579
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Conguring Anycast RP............................................................................................................................................... 580
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding......................................................................................................... 581
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages...............................................................................................581
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................583
32 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................ 586
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................586
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................587
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................587
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................ 587
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................588
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 588
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................588
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 589
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................590
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................590
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................591
Modifying Global Parameters........................................................................................................................................591
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................592
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 593
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 594
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................594
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................595
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 598
33 Multicast Features...................................................................................................................................600
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................600
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 600
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................601
IPv4 Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................601
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 608
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 609
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 609
Supported Error Codes..................................................................................................................................................610
mtrace Scenarios............................................................................................................................................................ 611
34 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................ 617
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................. 617
Track Layer 2 Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................... 618
Track Layer 3 Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................... 618
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes....................................................................................................................................619
Set Tracking Delays................................................................................................................................................. 620
VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................ 620
Object Tracking Conguration..................................................................................................................................... 620
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface................................................................................................................................... 620
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