Dell PowerSwitch S5000 User guide

Dell 9.11(2.0P1) Conguration Guide for the

S5000 Switch

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2017 - 05

Rev. A00

Contents

1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................36

Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 36

Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................36

Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 36

2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 37

Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................ 37

CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................37

Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................39

Port Numbering Convention...........................................................................................................................................40

The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41

The no Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42

Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42

Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43

Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44

Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................44

Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45

3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46

Accessing Ports............................................................................................................................................................... 46

Accessing the RJ-45/RS-232 Console Port................................................................................................................ 46

Pin Assignments...............................................................................................................................................................47

Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................47

Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................47

Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................ 47

Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 48

Accessing the USB-B Console Port.............................................................................................................................. 48

Booting Process............................................................................................................................................................... 48

Enter the Initial Conguration Information....................................................................................................................50

Conguring the Enable Password...................................................................................................................................51

Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51

Navigating CLI Modes......................................................................................................................................................51

Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 52

Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..........................................................................................................................52

Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................52

Congure the Management Port IP Address............................................................................................................... 52

Congure a Management Route....................................................................................................................................53

Conguring a Username and Password........................................................................................................................53

Creating a Port-based VLAN..........................................................................................................................................53

Assigning Interfaces to a VLAN..................................................................................................................................... 53

Assigning an IP Address to a VLAN...............................................................................................................................54

Connect the S5000 to the Network.............................................................................................................................54

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Congure File Management........................................................................................................................................... 54

Copying Files to and from the System..........................................................................................................................54

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................... 55

Mounting an NFS File System........................................................................................................................................55

Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................56

Saving the Running-Conguration.................................................................................................................................57

Viewing Files..................................................................................................................................................................... 57

View Conguration Files................................................................................................................................................. 58

Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................... 59

Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 62

Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option..........................................................................62

View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 63

Upgrading and Downgrading Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................................63

Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................63

Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 64

4 Switch Management....................................................................................................................................66

Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 66

Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................66

Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.................................................................................................................... 66

Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode..............................................................................66

Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands.......................................................................................... 67

Allowing Access to the Following Modes......................................................................................................................67

Applying a Privilege Level to a Username..................................................................................................................... 68

Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line................................................................................................................ 69

Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 69

Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................69

Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 69

Disabling System Logging......................................................................................................................................... 70

Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server...................................................................................................... 70

Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server...........................................................................................................70

Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................70

Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity................................................................................................................... 71

Conguring Login Activity Tracking..........................................................................................................................71

Display Login Statistics...............................................................................................................................................71

Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................73

Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions.............................................................................73

Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................73

Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 73

Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................74

Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................74

Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 75

Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................76

Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 77

Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 77

File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................78

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Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................78

Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 78

Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................78

Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 79

Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 79

Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................79

Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines...................................................................................................80

Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 81

Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device...........................................................................................................81

Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 82

Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................82

View the Conguration Lock Status..............................................................................................................................83

Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 83

Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................83

Recovering from a Failed Start.......................................................................................................................................84

5 802.1X......................................................................................................................................................... 85

The Port-Authentication Process...................................................................................................................................87

EAP over RADIUS............................................................................................................................................................ 87

RADIUS Attributes for 802.1 Support......................................................................................................................88

Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................88

Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 88

Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................88

Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 89

Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................90

Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions............................................................................................................91

Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication............................................................................................ 91

Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 92

Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................93

Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................94

Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 95

Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.......................................................................................................................... 96

Conguring a Guest VLAN....................................................................................................................................... 96

Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN...............................................................................................................96

Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................ 97

Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................98

Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................99

6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM).................................. 100

Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 100

Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups............................................................................................................ 101

Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters............................................... 101

Conguring ACL VLAN Groups............................................................................................................................... 101

Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................102

Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 103

Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 104

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7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 106

IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................106

CAM Allocation and CAM Optimization.......................................................................................................................107

User Congurable CAM Allocation.........................................................................................................................107

CAM Optimization....................................................................................................................................................108

Test CAM Usage.......................................................................................................................................................108

View CAM-ACL Settings.........................................................................................................................................108

View CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 110

QoS CAM Region Limitation....................................................................................................................................110

Implementing ACLs on Dell Networking OS................................................................................................................. 111

ACLs and VLANs........................................................................................................................................................111

ACL Optimization....................................................................................................................................................... 111

Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac........................................................................ 111

IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 112

IP Fragments ACL Examples....................................................................................................................................112

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......................................................................................................................................115

Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................116

Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number................................................................................................. 116

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...................................................................................................................................................119

Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 120

Congure ACLs to Loopback......................................................................................................................................... 121

Applying an ACL on Loopback Interfaces.....................................................................................................................121

IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 122

Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 122

Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 122

Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................123

Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number............................................................................................123

Viewing Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................. 124

Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution.....................................................................................................125

Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)................................................................................................................125

ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 126

Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................126

Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................128

Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 128

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 128

Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................ 128

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Creating a Route Map..............................................................................................................................................128

Congure Route Map Filters...................................................................................................................................130

Conguring Match Routes...................................................................................................................................... 130

Conguring Set Conditions..................................................................................................................................... 132

Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.................................................................................................133

Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................133

Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................134

8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 135

How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 135

BFD Packet Format........................................................................................................................................................136

BFD Sessions...................................................................................................................................................................137

BFD Three-Way Handshake.......................................................................................................................................... 138

Session State Changes..................................................................................................................................................140

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 140

Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 140

Congure BFD for Physical Ports........................................................................................................................... 141

Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................142

Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................145

Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................148

Congure BFD for BGP............................................................................................................................................151

Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................ 157

Troubleshooting BFD......................................................................................................................................................157

9 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).................................................................................................... 159

Autonomous Systems (AS)...........................................................................................................................................160

Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 162

Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 162

Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................163

Communities................................................................................................................................................................... 164

BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................164

Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................164

Weight..............................................................................................................................................................................166

Local Preference.............................................................................................................................................................166

Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................167

Origin................................................................................................................................................................................168

AS Path............................................................................................................................................................................168

Next Hop......................................................................................................................................................................... 169

Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................169

Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................169

Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................169

Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 170

Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations............................................................................................. 170

Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................170

AS4 Number Representation................................................................................................................................... 171

AS Number Migration.....................................................................................................................................................172

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BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)..............................................................................................................173

Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................174

Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................174

BGP Conguration................................................................................................................................................... 175

Enabling BGP.................................................................................................................................................................. 176

Conguring AS4 Number Representations................................................................................................................. 179

Conguring Peer Groups...............................................................................................................................................180

Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over...................................................................................................................................183

Conguring Passive Peering......................................................................................................................................... 184

Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.......................................................................................185

Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path.............................................................................................186

Enabling Graceful Restart..............................................................................................................................................186

Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................187

Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute................................................................................................................................. 188

Regular Expressions as Filters.................................................................................................................................189

Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.................................................................................................... 190

Redistributing Routes..................................................................................................................................................... 191

Enabling Additional Paths.............................................................................................................................................. 192

Conguring IP Community Lists................................................................................................................................... 192

Filtering Routes with Community Lists........................................................................................................................193

Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute...................................................................................................................194

Changing MED Attributes............................................................................................................................................. 195

Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute........................................................................................................ 195

Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes................... 196

Changing the WEIGHT Attribute..................................................................................................................................197

Enabling Multipath..........................................................................................................................................................197

Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps.....................................................................................................................197

Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.................................................................................................... 198

Filtering BGP Routes......................................................................................................................................................199

Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps..............................................................................................................200

Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 201

Conguring BGP Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................. 201

Aggregating Routes.......................................................................................................................................................202

Conguring BGP Confederations................................................................................................................................ 202

Enabling Route Flap Dampening.................................................................................................................................. 203

Changing BGP Timers...................................................................................................................................................205

Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconguration...........................................................................................................206

Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors...........................................................................................................................207

Route Map Continue..................................................................................................................................................... 208

Match a Clause with a Continue Clause...............................................................................................................208

Set a Clause with a Continue Clause.................................................................................................................... 208

Enabling MBGP Congurations................................................................................................................................... 208

Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor......................................... 209

BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................209

Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 210

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Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................210

Capturing PDUs.........................................................................................................................................................211

PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................212

Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................212

10 Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP).................................................................................................................221

Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................................................221

Restrictions..................................................................................................................................................................... 221

Reconguring Jumpstart and Normal Modes............................................................................................................ 222

Jumpstart Mode............................................................................................................................................................ 223

DHCP Server/Conguration...................................................................................................................................223

MAC-Based IP Assignment.................................................................................................................................... 224

DHCP Retry Mechanism.........................................................................................................................................225

File Server.......................................................................................................................................................................225

Domain Name Server.................................................................................................................................................... 226

Switch Boot and Set-up Behavior in Jumpstart Mode.............................................................................................226

11 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 228

CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................228

Re-Allocating CAM for Ingress ACLs and QoS.......................................................................................................... 229

Re-Allocating CAM for Egress ACLs...........................................................................................................................230

Testing CAM Usage for QoS Policies...........................................................................................................................231

Displaying CAM-ACL Settings...................................................................................................................................... 231

Displaying CAM-ACL-Egress Settings.........................................................................................................................232

CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 232

Troubleshoot CAM Proling....................................................................................................................................232

12 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................233

Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 234

Conguring CoPP for Protocols.................................................................................................................................. 235

Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues.............................................................................................................................237

Show Commands...........................................................................................................................................................237

13 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 239

Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 239

Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 240

Enhanced Transmission Selection...........................................................................................................................241

Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................242

Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow...................................................................................................................243

Enabling Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................................................... 243

DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................244

Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................245

Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................245

Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 246

Conguring PFC in a DCB Map....................................................................................................................................247

PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................247

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PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 248

Applying a DCB Map on a Port.................................................................................................................................... 248

Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................249

Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................249

Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method.................................................................................... 251

Pause and Resume of Trac...................................................................................................................................251

Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets............................................................................................................. 251

Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................252

Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................252

Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................253

Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................253

ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 253

Creating an ETS Priority Group..............................................................................................................................253

ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................255

Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN................................................................................................ 255

Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................256

Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 257

Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................258

Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 258

Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................258

DCBx Operation.......................................................................................................................................................258

DCBx Port Roles......................................................................................................................................................259

DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 260

Conguration Source Election............................................................................................................................... 260

Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................ 261

Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version.......................................................................261

DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................262

DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................262

Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................262

Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 266

Sample DCB Conguration........................................................................................................................................... 274

PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................276

QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment.......................................................................................... 276

Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................................................277

14 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 279

DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................279

Assign an IP Address using DHCP................................................................................................................................281

Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................282

Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 282

Congure the System to be a DHCP Server..............................................................................................................282

Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................................. 283

Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................283

Specifying a Default Gateway................................................................................................................................ 284

Enabling the DHCP Server..................................................................................................................................... 284

Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution..................................................................................................... 285

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Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................286

Debugging the DHCP Server.................................................................................................................................286

Using DHCP Clear Commands.............................................................................................................................. 286

Congure the System to be a Relay Agent.................................................................................................................287

Congure the System for User Port Stacking........................................................................................................... 289

Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................289

Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................289

DHCP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................................290

Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only.................................................................................................... 291

Dynamic ARP Inspection.........................................................................................................................................292

Source Address Validation...................................................................................................................................... 294

Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets......................................................................................................... 295

Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets.........................................................................................................296

15 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 297

ECMP for Flow-Based Anity..................................................................................................................................... 297

Conguring the Hash Algorithm...................................................................................................................................297

Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.....................................................................................................................297

Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed........................................................................................................................ 298

Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 298

Managing ECMP Group Paths.....................................................................................................................................299

Creating an ECMP Group Bundle................................................................................................................................299

Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold...................................................................................................................... 299

16 Fabric Services......................................................................................................................................... 301

Conguring Switch Mode to Fabric Services............................................................................................................ 302

Name Server.................................................................................................................................................................. 302

Link State Database.......................................................................................................................................................303

Inter Switch Link (ISL)............................................................................................................................................ 303

Principal Switch Selection and Domain ID Assignment.......................................................................................304

Route Table...............................................................................................................................................................304

Zoning............................................................................................................................................................................. 304

Creating Zone and Adding Members.................................................................................................................... 304

Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members........................................................................................................... 305

Creating Zonesets................................................................................................................................................... 305

Activating a Zoneset............................................................................................................................................... 305

Zone Merge (within ISL).........................................................................................................................................306

Conguring Fabric Parameters.............................................................................................................................. 306

Displaying the Fabric Parameters...........................................................................................................................307

17 FCoE Transit............................................................................................................................................. 312

Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................312

Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................312

FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges...............................................................................................................................314

FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack....................................................................................................................................316

Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................316

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Enable the FCoE Transit Feature............................................................................................................................316

FIP Snooping Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................317

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 317

Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature.........................................................................................................................318

Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs..............................................................................................................................318

Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................. 318

Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link........................................................................................................319

Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link............................................................................................................319

Impact on Other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 319

FIP Snooping on an NPIV Proxy Gateway............................................................................................................320

FIP Snooping in an S5000 Stack...........................................................................................................................320

Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 320

FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 320

Conguring FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................321

Displaying FIP Snooping Information.....................................................................................................................322

FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................327

18 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................329

Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 329

Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................329

Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 330

Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................330

Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................330

Disabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 331

19 Fibre Channel Interface............................................................................................................................ 332

Congure Fibre Channel Interfaces.............................................................................................................................332

Enabling Fibre Channel Capability................................................................................................................................332

Conguring Fibre Channel Interfaces..........................................................................................................................333

Displaying Fibre Channel Information.......................................................................................................................... 333

Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Operation.................................................................................................................. 336

Conguring the Fibre Channel Port Group in Passthrough Ethernet Mode...........................................................337

Displaying Fibre Channel Port Group Mode Information...........................................................................................338

20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).................................................................................................. 339

Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................339

Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................341

Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 341

Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................342

Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 343

Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................344

FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................344

Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................344

Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................345

Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................346

Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................347

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Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 347

Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 347

Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................347

Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 348

Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................348

Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................348

FRRP Support on VLT.................................................................................................................................................. 350

Example Scenario..................................................................................................................................................... 351

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 352

21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................353

Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 353

Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 353

Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................354

Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 354

Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................355

Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 355

Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 356

22 High Availability (HA)...............................................................................................................................357

High Availability on Stacks............................................................................................................................................ 357

Hitless Behavior..............................................................................................................................................................357

Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................................ 358

Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 358

System Health Monitoring......................................................................................................................................358

Failure and Event Logging...................................................................................................................................... 358

Trace Log.................................................................................................................................................................. 358

Core Dumps..............................................................................................................................................................358

System Log...............................................................................................................................................................359

Hot-Lock Behavior.........................................................................................................................................................359

Component Redundancy.............................................................................................................................................. 359

Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover.......................................................................................................... 359

Synchronization between Management and Standby Units..............................................................................360

Forcing a Stack Unit Failover................................................................................................................................. 360

Specifying an Auto-Failover Limit..........................................................................................................................360

Disabling Auto-Reboot............................................................................................................................................ 360

Manually Synchronizing Management and Standby Units..................................................................................361

23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................362

IGMP Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................. 362

IGMP Protocol Overview..............................................................................................................................................362

IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 362

Join a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................ 363

Leaving a Multicast Group......................................................................................................................................363

IGMP Version 3........................................................................................................................................................ 364

Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 367

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Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 367

Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces...............................................................................................................................368

Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................368

Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................368

Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 369

Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 369

Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................370

IGMP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................................. 370

IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 370

Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................370

Removing a Group-Port Association......................................................................................................................371

Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave............................................................................................................................371

Disabling Multicast Flooding................................................................................................................................... 372

Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router.......................................................................................372

Conguring the Switch as Querier.........................................................................................................................372

Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes................................................................................................... 373

Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................ 373

Protocol Separation................................................................................................................................................. 374

Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 375

Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 375

Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 376

Handling of Switch-Destined Trac...................................................................................................................... 377

Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).....................................................................................................377

Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type..................................................................................... 377

Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 378

Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................379

Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................380

Designating a Multicast Router Interface....................................................................................................................381

24 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................382

Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................382

Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................382

Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................383

View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................383

Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................385

Enabling Energy Ecient Ethernet..............................................................................................................................386

View EEE Information................................................................................................................................................... 386

Clear EEE Counters.......................................................................................................................................................390

Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................ 391

Physical Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................... 391

Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................392

Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 392

Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................392

Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 393

Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................393

Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 394

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Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................394

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 394

Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 395

Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................395

Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 395

Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................397

VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................397

Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................398

Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 399

Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................399

Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................399

Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................399

Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................399

Interfaces in Port Channels....................................................................................................................................400

Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................400

Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 401

Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 401

Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................403

Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 403

Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 404

Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 405

Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................405

Load Balancing Through Port Channels............................................................................................................... 405

Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................406

Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 407

Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................407

Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................407

Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 409

Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 409

Choosing an Interface-Range Macro....................................................................................................................409

Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 409

Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................410

Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports.............................................................................................................................411

Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port...................................................................................412

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 412

Example Scenarios................................................................................................................................................... 412

Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 416

Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 416

Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 417

Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................417

Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 418

Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 419

Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 420

Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................420

Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................421

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Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................421

Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................421

Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................423

View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................423

Conguring the Interface Sampling Size...............................................................................................................424

Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................425

Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 426

Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................427

25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 428

Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................428

26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................430

IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................431

Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 431

Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 431

Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface........................................................................................................................431

Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................432

Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 433

IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 434

Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................434

Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 434

Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 435

Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 435

Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................435

Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................436

Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 436

Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................437

ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................437

Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 438

Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................438

Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................438

Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................439

ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................439

Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................439

ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 439

Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................440

ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................ 441

Conguration Tasks for ICMP.......................................................................................................................................441

Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages....................................................................................................................... 441

UDP Helper..................................................................................................................................................................... 441

Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................. 441

Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................442

Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................442

Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 442

Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 443

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UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................443

UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................444

UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.................................................................................................. 444

UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................445

Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................445

27 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 446

Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................446

Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................446

Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 446

IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................447

IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................447

Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................449

Addressing................................................................................................................................................................450

Implementing IPv6 with Dell Networking OS..............................................................................................................451

ICMPv6......................................................................................................................................................................451

Path MTU Discovery................................................................................................................................................451

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery........................................................................................................................................ 452

Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport........................................................................................................453

Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................453

Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................454

Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................454

Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................455

Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................455

SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................456

Showing IPv6 Information...................................................................................................................................... 456

Showing an IPv6 Interface..................................................................................................................................... 456

Showing IPv6 Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 457

Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface.........................................................................................458

Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................459

Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 459

Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 459

Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface..........................................................................................................461

Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard......................................................................................................................................462

28 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................463

iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 463

Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................464

Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 464

Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................465

Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................465

Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................466

Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................466

Default iSCSI Optimization Values............................................................................................................................... 467

iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................467

Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................467

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Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information................................................................................................................. 469

29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System........................................................................................... 471

IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................ 471

IS-IS Addressing..............................................................................................................................................................471

Multi-Topology IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................472

Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................472

Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................473

Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................473

Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................473

Timers........................................................................................................................................................................473

Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................474

Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 474

Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................475

Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................482

Changing the IS-Type.............................................................................................................................................. 483

IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................487

Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 488

Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 488

Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................488

Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................490

Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................................490

30 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 493

Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 493

Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 493

LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 494

Conguring LACP Commands............................................................................................................................... 494

LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................495

Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................495

Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................495

Setting the LACP Long Timeout........................................................................................................................... 496

Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................496

Shared LAG State Tracking...........................................................................................................................................497

Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................... 497

Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 498

LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................ 499

Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 499

31 Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................... 507

Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 507

Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 507

Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................507

Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................508

Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................508

MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................508

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mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 509

mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 509

mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 509

Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................509

Setting Station Move Violation Actions.................................................................................................................510

Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations............................................................................510

Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................. 511

NIC Teaming.....................................................................................................................................................................511

Congure Redundant Pairs........................................................................................................................................... 512

Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs......................................................................................... 514

Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................515

FEFD State Changes................................................................................................................................................516

Conguring FEFD..................................................................................................................................................... 517

Enabling FEFD on an Interface................................................................................................................................517

Debugging FEFD.......................................................................................................................................................518

32 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 520

802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................520

Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 520

Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................521

Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 521

TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview.......................................................................................................................... 523

Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................527

Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 527

Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................527

LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................528

CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations...................................................................................... 528

Enabling LLDP..........................................................................................................................................................528

Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 529

Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................529

Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports..........................................................................................529

Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 529

Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 530

Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents...................................................................................... 531

Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 532

Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................532

Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................533

Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................534

Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 535

33 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 540

NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................540

NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................540

Limitations of the NLB Feature.....................................................................................................................................541

Microsoft Clustering.......................................................................................................................................................541

Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................. 541

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Conguring a Switch for NLB ......................................................................................................................................541

Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 542

34 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 543

Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................543

Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................544

Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 545

Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................545

Related Conguration Tasks.........................................................................................................................................545

Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 549

Manage the Source-Active Cache..............................................................................................................................550

Viewing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 550

Limiting the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 550

Clearing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................551

Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................551

Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check...................................................................................... 551

Specifying Source-Active Messages.......................................................................................................................... 555

Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................556

Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................556

Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 557

Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................557

Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................558

Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................558

Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................559

Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................559

Conguring Anycast RP............................................................................................................................................... 560

Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 560

Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................560

MSDP Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 563

35 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................ 566

Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................566

Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................ 567

Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................567

Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.......................................................................................................................567

Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................568

Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................568

Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................569

Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges................................................................................................. 570

Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 570

Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................ 571

Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 572

Conguring Fast Hellos for Link State Detection.......................................................................................................573

Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................573

MSTP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 573

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