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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module
Conguration Guide
9.11(2.0P1)
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2017 - 01
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 33
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 34
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................34
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 34
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................34
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 34
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................35
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................35
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 35
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................36
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................36
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping...........................................................................................................................36
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................36
Link Aggregation...............................................................................................................................................................37
Link Tracking..................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 37
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Server-Facing LAGs...................................................................................................................................................37
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................38
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 39
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................39
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................40
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 47
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 47
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................49
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................49
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Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................49
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................49
Boot Process....................................................................................................................................................................50
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 51
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................52
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................52
Accessing the Switch Remotely...............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 52
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................53
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 53
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................53
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................54
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 54
Save the Running-Conguration............................................................................................................................. 55
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Managing the File System...............................................................................................................................................57
View the Command History........................................................................................................................................... 58
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 58
Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS................................................................................................59
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
Deploying FN I/O Module............................................................................................................................................... 60
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode.............................................................................................61
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................. 61
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................63
Verifying the Congurations.....................................................................................................................................64
5 Management............................................................................................................................................... 65
Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 65
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................66
Customizing a Privilege Level...................................................................................................................................66
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username...............................................................................................................68
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 68
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 68
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 69
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................70
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server..............................................................................................71
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 72
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................72
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 73
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 73
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 73
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................73
Changing System Logging Settings............................................................................................................................... 74
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................75
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................75
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Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 76
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 77
Enabling Secure Management Mode.............................................................................................................................77
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................78
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................78
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................78
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 78
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................79
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 79
Terminal Lines...................................................................................................................................................................80
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................80
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................80
Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 81
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................82
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 82
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................83
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................83
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 83
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................84
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 84
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 85
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 85
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................85
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................86
Recovering from a Forgotten Password........................................................................................................................87
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................88
Recovering from a Failed Start...................................................................................................................................... 89
6 802.1X......................................................................................................................................................... 90
The Port-Authentication Process.................................................................................................................................. 93
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................94
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 94
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................95
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 95
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions.....................................................................................................96
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication......................................................................................97
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 98
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................99
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................99
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.........................................................................100
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs....................................................................................................................101
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................102
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 102
7 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................104
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Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 104
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN groups............................................................................................................105
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................106
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 106
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters....................................................................................................... 107
Viewing CAM Usage.......................................................................................................................................................107
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 109
8 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................110
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)...................................................................................................................................... 111
Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS........................................................................................................... 112
ACLs and VLANs.............................................................................................................................................................112
ACL Optimization............................................................................................................................................................ 112
Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac..............................................................................112
Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence..............................................................................112
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 113
IP Fragments ACL Examples..........................................................................................................................................113
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples......................................................................................................................................... 113
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................114
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter............................................................................................................................115
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................116
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number..............................................................................................................116
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number........................................................................................................117
Established Flag...............................................................................................................................................................117
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs.............................................................................................................................117
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................118
Applying an IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................................118
Counting ACL Hits.......................................................................................................................................................... 119
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 119
Congure Egress ACLs..................................................................................................................................................120
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).......................................................................................................... 120
IP Prex Lists................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Implementation Information..................................................................................................................................... 121
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.........................................................................................................................121
Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................122
Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................. 122
Viewing Prex Lists........................................................................................................................................................ 123
Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution........................................................................................................... 124
Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)......................................................................................................................124
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 125
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.............................................................................................................................125
Route Maps..................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Implementation Information.....................................................................................................................................127
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................................127
Conguration Task List for Route Maps...................................................................................................................... 127
Creating a Route Map....................................................................................................................................................127
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Congure Route Map Filters.........................................................................................................................................129
Conguring Match Routes............................................................................................................................................ 129
Conguring Set Conditions........................................................................................................................................... 130
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution........................................................................................................131
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging.................................................................................................................. 131
Continue Clause..............................................................................................................................................................132
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 132
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................133
Conguring ACL Logging...............................................................................................................................................133
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 134
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................134
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................135
9 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 137
How BFD Works..............................................................................................................................................................137
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................138
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 139
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 140
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................142
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 142
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 142
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................143
Enabling BFD Globally.............................................................................................................................................. 143
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 144
Disabling and Re-Enabling BFD...............................................................................................................................144
Congure BFD for Static Routes..................................................................................................................................145
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................145
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes.................................................................................................................145
Establishing Static Route Sessions on Specic Neighbors................................................................................. 146
Changing Static Route Session Parameters..........................................................................................................147
Disabling BFD for Static Routes..............................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for OSPF............................................................................................................................................... 147
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................148
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors........................................................................................................ 148
Changing OSPF Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................149
Disabling BFD for OSPF...........................................................................................................................................149
Congure BFD for OSPFv3...........................................................................................................................................150
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................150
Establishing Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors....................................................................................................150
Changing OSPFv3 Session Parameters................................................................................................................ 150
Disabling BFD for OSPFv3....................................................................................................................................... 151
Congure BFD for BGP..................................................................................................................................................151
Prerequisites...............................................................................................................................................................151
Establishing Sessions with BGP Neighbors........................................................................................................... 151
Disabling BFD for BGP.............................................................................................................................................153
Use BFD in a BGP Peer Group............................................................................................................................... 154
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Displaying BFD for BGP Information......................................................................................................................154
Congure BFD for VRRP...............................................................................................................................................158
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................158
Establishing Sessions with All VRRP Neighbors...................................................................................................158
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................159
Changing VRRP Session Parameters.................................................................................................................... 160
Disabling BFD for VRRP.......................................................................................................................................... 160
Congure BFD for VLANs.............................................................................................................................................160
Related Conguration Task...................................................................................................................................... 161
Establish Sessions with VLAN Neighbors.............................................................................................................. 161
Changing VLAN Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................162
Disabling BFD for VLANs.........................................................................................................................................162
Congure BFD for Port-Channels................................................................................................................................ 162
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................162
Establish Sessions on Port-Channels.....................................................................................................................163
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 163
Disabling BFD for Port-Channels............................................................................................................................164
Conguring Protocol Liveness...................................................................................................................................... 164
Troubleshooting BFD......................................................................................................................................................164
10 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)................................................................................................... 166
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 166
Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 168
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................168
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................169
Communities............................................................................................................................................................. 170
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................170
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 170
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................172
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................172
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................173
Origin.......................................................................................................................................................................... 174
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................175
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 175
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................175
Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................ 176
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support...................................................................................................................... 176
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 176
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations..............................................................................................177
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................177
AS4 Number Representation...................................................................................................................................177
AS Number Migration...............................................................................................................................................179
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................180
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 180
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................. 181
BGP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 181
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Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 182
Enabling MBGP Congurations.............................................................................................................................. 212
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................213
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 213
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................214
PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................215
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................215
11 Conguration Cloning............................................................................................................................... 224
Cloning Conguration Output Status..........................................................................................................................224
12 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 227
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................227
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................228
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 228
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 229
13 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................230
Congure Control Plane Policing.................................................................................................................................. 231
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 232
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 233
Show Commands.....................................................................................................................................................234
14 Data Center Bridging (DCB).....................................................................................................................236
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................236
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 236
Priority-Based Flow Control..........................................................................................................................................237
Enhanced Transmission Selection................................................................................................................................238
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx).....................................................................................................240
Creating a DCB Map..................................................................................................................................................... 240
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 240
Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports...................................................................................... 241
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration...............................................................................................................241
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.........................................................................................................................242
Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode.........................................................................................................242
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 244
How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented...............................................................................................246
Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 246
Conguring the PFC Buer in a Switch Stack.....................................................................................................247
Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection...........................................................................................................248
How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented..................................................................................... 248
ETS Operation with DCBx...................................................................................................................................... 249
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 249
DCBx Operation.............................................................................................................................................................250
DCBx Operation.......................................................................................................................................................250
DCBx Port Roles......................................................................................................................................................250
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DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................. 251
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................252
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................252
Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version.................................................................................................................... 253
DCBx Example......................................................................................................................................................... 253
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................254
DCBx Error Messages.............................................................................................................................................255
Debugging DCBx on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 255
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 255
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................264
Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation......................................................................................................264
15 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 267
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 267
Assigning an IP Address using DHCP.......................................................................................................................... 267
Debugging DHCP Client Operation............................................................................................................................. 269
DHCP Client................................................................................................................................................................... 270
How DHCP Client is Implemented................................................................................................................................271
DHCP Client on a Management Interface...................................................................................................................271
DHCP Client on a VLAN................................................................................................................................................272
DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................272
Option 82........................................................................................................................................................................ 273
Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses................................................................................................ 274
Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information....................................................................................................... 274
16 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 276
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity..................................................................................................................................... 276
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop...............................................................................................................276
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................276
Managing ECMP Group Paths..................................................................................................................................... 277
17 FC FPORT................................................................................................................................................ 278
FC FPORT...................................................................................................................................................................... 279
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode............................................................................................................ 279
Name Server.................................................................................................................................................................. 280
FCoE Maps......................................................................................................................................................................281
Creating an FCoE Map.................................................................................................................................................. 281
Zoning..............................................................................................................................................................................282
Creating Zone and Adding Members...........................................................................................................................283
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members..................................................................................................................283
Creating Zonesets..........................................................................................................................................................283
Activating a Zoneset......................................................................................................................................................284
Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................ 284
18 FCoE Transit.............................................................................................................................................287
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 287
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................287
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................ 287
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 289
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................290
Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................291
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 291
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature.........................................................................................................................291
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................292
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 292
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 292
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................292
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 292
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................293
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 293
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................294
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................294
FCoE Transit Conguration Example.......................................................................................................................... 299
19 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................302
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................302
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 302
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................303
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................303
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 304
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).................................................................................................. 305
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................305
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 306
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................307
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................308
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................309
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 310
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 310
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 310
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................310
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs....................................................................................................... 312
Setting the FRRP Timers.........................................................................................................................................313
Clearing the FRRP Counters...................................................................................................................................313
Viewing the FRRP Conguration............................................................................................................................313
Viewing the FRRP Information............................................................................................................................... 313
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 314
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................314
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................314
FRRP Support on VLT................................................................................................................................................... 316
Example Scenario..................................................................................................................................................... 317
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 318
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21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP).............................................................................................. 319
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 319
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................. 319
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................320
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 320
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface.........................................................................................................................321
Congure GVRP Registration....................................................................................................................................... 321
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 322
22 FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................... 323
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................323
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 323
Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network......................................................................................... 323
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 325
How FIP Snooping is Implemented..............................................................................................................................326
FIP Snooping on VLANs......................................................................................................................................... 326
FC-MAP Value..........................................................................................................................................................327
Bridge-to-FCF Links................................................................................................................................................ 327
Impact on other Software Features.......................................................................................................................327
FIP Snooping Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................... 327
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 328
Conguring FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................328
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................329
FIP Snooping Example.................................................................................................................................................. 334
Debugging FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................. 334
23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................336
IGMP Overview..............................................................................................................................................................336
IGMP Version 2..............................................................................................................................................................336
Joining a Multicast Group....................................................................................................................................... 337
Leaving a Multicast Group...................................................................................................................................... 337
IGMP Version 3.............................................................................................................................................................. 337
Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources............................................................................................................ 338
Leaving and Staying in Groups...............................................................................................................................339
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................340
How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator.......................................................................................... 340
Disabling Multicast Flooding.........................................................................................................................................340
Displaying IGMP Information........................................................................................................................................340
24 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................343
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................343
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................343
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................344
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................344
Conguring the Default Interface................................................................................................................................ 346
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Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................347
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................347
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 347
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 348
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................348
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 348
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................349
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 349
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................350
Conguring Management Interfaces on the Switch............................................................................................351
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 352
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 352
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 353
VLAN Membership........................................................................................................................................................ 353
Default VLAN .......................................................................................................................................................... 354
Port-Based VLANs.................................................................................................................................................. 354
VLANs and Port Tagging........................................................................................................................................ 354
Conguring VLAN Membership.............................................................................................................................355
Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................355
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN................................................................................................................ 356
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN..........................................................................................................356
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................357
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................358
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................359
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels...........................................................................................359
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................360
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 360
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................360
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................362
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 363
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 363
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 364
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................364
Load Balancing through Port Channels.......................................................................................................................364
Changing the Hash Algorithm......................................................................................................................................364
Server Ports................................................................................................................................................................... 365
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong................................................................................................... 365
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 366
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 366
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................367
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 368
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 368
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 368
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Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 369
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 370
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 370
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports..............................................................................................................371
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface...............................................................................................................371
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 372
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 372
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................373
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................373
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames.................................................................................................373
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................374
Congure MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................... 374
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................375
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 375
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................375
View Advanced Interface Information......................................................................................................................... 377
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................378
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.....................................................................................................379
Dynamic Counters................................................................................................................................................... 380
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing........................................................................................381
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 383
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................383
26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................385
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................385
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................386
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses....................................................................................................................386
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 388
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................389
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 389
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 389
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 390
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................390
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names......................................................................................................390
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains.............................................................................. 391
Conguring DNS with Traceroute.......................................................................................................................... 391
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................392
Conguration Tasks for ARP.................................................................................................................................. 392
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................394
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 394
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................395
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 396
Conguration Tasks for ICMP................................................................................................................................396
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................396
Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................ 396
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Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 396
Enabling UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................... 397
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................397
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses...........................................................................................................397
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses...................................................................................................398
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................398
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses......................................................................................399
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................399
27 IPv6 Routing.............................................................................................................................................401
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................401
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................402
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 402
IPv6 Header Fields.........................................................................................................................................................403
Version (4 bits).........................................................................................................................................................403
Trac Class (8 bits).................................................................................................................................................403
Flow Label (20 bits).................................................................................................................................................403
Payload Length (16 bits)......................................................................................................................................... 403
Next Header (8 bits)............................................................................................................................................... 404
Hop Limit (8 bits).....................................................................................................................................................404
Source Address (128 bits)...................................................................................................................................... 405
Destination Address (128 bits)............................................................................................................................... 405
Extension Header Fields............................................................................................................................................... 405
Hop-by-Hop Options Header.................................................................................................................................405
Addressing...................................................................................................................................................................... 406
Link-local Addresses................................................................................................................................................406
Static and Dynamic Addressing............................................................................................................................. 406
Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................... 407
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................408
Path MTU Discovery.....................................................................................................................................................409
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery..............................................................................................................................................409
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets........................................................................................................... 410
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS..................................................................................................................... 410
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................410
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information....................................................................................................................... 411
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .......................................................................................411
IPv6 Multicast..................................................................................................................................................................411
Conguration Task List for IPv6................................................................................................................................... 412
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole.....................................................................................................................................412
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface............................................................................................................413
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route.................................................................................................................................413
Conguring Telnet with IPv6...................................................................................................................................414
SNMP over IPv6.......................................................................................................................................................414
Showing IPv6 Information....................................................................................................................................... 414
Showing an IPv6 Interface...................................................................................................................................... 415
Showing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................415
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Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................416
Clearing IPv6 Routes................................................................................................................................................417
Disabling ND Entry Timeout.................................................................................................................................... 417
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport............................................................................................................... 417
28 iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 418
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................418
iSCSI Optimization Overview........................................................................................................................................418
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows......................................................................................................................................419
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.............................................................................................................420
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.......................................................................420
iSCSI Optimization: Operation......................................................................................................................................420
Conguring iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................... 421
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................422
29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 424
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................424
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................424
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 425
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 425
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................426
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................426
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................426
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................426
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................427
Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 427
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................428
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................442
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................442
Maximum Values in the Routing Table...................................................................................................................442
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................442
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................444
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 445
30 Isolated Networks for Aggregators.......................................................................................................... 449
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings............................................................................................... 449
31 Link Aggregation...................................................................................................................................... 450
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................450
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator.....................................................................................................450
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................451
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................. 451
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................451
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................ 451
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)................................................................................................................ 452
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................452
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Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................452
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................452
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................454
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 455
Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces.................................................................................................. 455
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................456
Conguring Auto LAG...................................................................................................................................................456
Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active.............................................458
Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode..............................................459
Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage........................................................................459
Enabling LACP link-fallback..........................................................................................................................................459
Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle..................................................................460
Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle........................................................................................................ 460
Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration.....................................................................................................461
Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports.......................................................................................................... 463
32 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................465
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................465
Managing the MAC Address Table.............................................................................................................................. 465
Clearing the MAC Address Entries........................................................................................................................465
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 466
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................466
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming............................................................................................................. 467
MAC Address Station Move................................................................................................................................... 467
MAC Move Optimization........................................................................................................................................ 468
33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 469
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................469
Protocol Data Units....................................................................................................................................................... 469
Congure LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................. 471
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................471
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 471
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................. 471
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................ 472
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 472
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 472
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 473
Management TLVs...................................................................................................................................................473
IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs...................................................................................................................... 474
LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV...................................................................................................................................475
LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV......................................................................................................................... 476
Extended Power via MDI TLV.................................................................................................................................477
LLDP Operation..............................................................................................................................................................477
Viewing the LLDP Conguration..................................................................................................................................478
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents......................................................................................478
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 479
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Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................480
Clearing LLDP Counters............................................................................................................................................... 480
Debugging LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................481
Relevant Management Objects.................................................................................................................................... 481
34 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 487
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................ 487
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario..................................................................................................................................... 487
Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches.............................................................................................................. 488
Benets and Working of Microsoft Clustering...........................................................................................................488
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 488
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................488
Multicast NLB Mode............................................................................................................................................... 489
35 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 490
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................490
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................492
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................493
Congure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol................................................................................................. 493
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................493
Enabling MSDP.............................................................................................................................................................. 497
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 498
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................498
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................498
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................499
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 499
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................499
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................503
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................504
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................504
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source..................................................................................................505
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 505
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................506
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................506
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................507
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 507
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................508
Conguring Anycast RP............................................................................................................................................... 509
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding......................................................................................................... 510
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages...............................................................................................510
MSDP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 512
36 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 515
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................515
Spanning Tree Variations............................................................................................................................................... 516
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 516
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Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol.................................................................................................................516
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................517
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally....................................................................................................................... 517
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................. 517
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection.................................................................................................................................518
Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges..................................................................................................519
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................519
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 520
Enable BPDU Filtering Globally.....................................................................................................................................521
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................ 521
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 522
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................523
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................523
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration....................................................................................... 524
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations.........................................................................................................527
37 Multicast Features................................................................................................................................... 529
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................529
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................529
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast.........................................................................................................530
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................530
IPv4 Multicast Policies..................................................................................................................................................530
Limiting the Number of Multicast Routes............................................................................................................. 531
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group............................................................................................................... 531
Rate Limiting IGMP Join Requests........................................................................................................................534
Preventing a PIM Router from Forming an Adjacency....................................................................................... 534
Preventing a Source from Registering with the RP............................................................................................ 534
Preventing a PIM Router from Processing a Join................................................................................................537
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)...........................................................................................................537
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 538
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 538
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................539
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................540
38 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)....................................................................................546
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................546
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 546
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 547
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................548
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 548
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................550
Router Priority and Cost..........................................................................................................................................551
OSPF with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................552
Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................................................... 553
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)..............................................................................................................554
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Processing SNMP and Sending SNMP Traps......................................................................................................554
OSPF ACK Packing................................................................................................................................................. 554
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers...................................................................................................... 554
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................555
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)........................................................................................ 555
Troubleshooting OSPFv2........................................................................................................................................566
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6)...............................................................................................570
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing................................................................................................................................571
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface............................................................................................................ 571
Assigning Area ID on an Interface...........................................................................................................................571
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally........................................................................................ 572
Conguring Stub Areas........................................................................................................................................... 572
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................ 572
Redistributing Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 573
Conguring a Default Route................................................................................................................................... 573
Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart........................................................................................................................574
Displaying Graceful Restart.....................................................................................................................................574
OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec.....................................................................................................................576
39 Policy-based Routing (PBR).................................................................................................................... 584
Overview.........................................................................................................................................................................584
Implementing Policy-based Routing with Dell Networking OS................................................................................ 586
Conguration Task List for Policy-based Routing......................................................................................................586
PBR Exceptions (Permit)....................................................................................................................................... 588
Apply a Redirect-list to an Interface using a Redirect-group................................................................................... 590
Show Redirect List Conguration.......................................................................................................................... 591
Sample Conguration....................................................................................................................................................592
Create the Redirect-List GOLDAssign Redirect-List GOLD to Interface 2/11View Redirect-List GOLD..... 592
40 PIM Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM).................................................................................................................. 596
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 596
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................596
Requesting Multicast Trac...................................................................................................................................597
Refuse Multicast Trac.......................................................................................................................................... 597
Send Multicast Trac............................................................................................................................................. 597
Conguring PIM-SM.....................................................................................................................................................598
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................598
Enable PIM-SM..............................................................................................................................................................598
Conguring S,G Expiry Timers..................................................................................................................................... 599
Conguring a Static Rendezvous Point......................................................................................................................600
Overriding Bootstrap Router Updates.................................................................................................................. 600
Conguring a Designated Router................................................................................................................................. 601
Creating Multicast Boundaries and Domains.............................................................................................................. 601
Enabling PIM-SM Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................602
41 PIM Source-Specic Mode (PIM-SSM)...................................................................................................603
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