Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 346
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................347
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................347
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................349
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 349
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................350
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 350
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................351
Port Channel Denition and Standards..................................................................................................................351
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................351
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 351
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 352
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................352
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................352
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................353
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................354
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 355
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 355
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 357
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 357
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................357
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 357
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 358
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 358
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................359
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................360
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 361
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.....................................................................................................................361
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 361
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 362
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................363
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 364
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................365
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 365
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 366
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................367
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................367
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................367
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................ 367
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 369
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 369
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 370
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................371
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................371
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 372
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................372
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................373
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