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Dell Conguration Guide for the S6000 System
9.14.2.0
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2019 - 04
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................37
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................37
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Related Documents..........................................................................................................................................................37
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 38
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................38
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................44
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................45
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
Conguring alias command.............................................................................................................................................46
Viewing alias conguration........................................................................................................................................47
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................49
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................50
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................50
Default Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 51
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................ 51
Accessing the System Remotely.................................................................................................................................... 51
Accessing the System Remotely.............................................................................................................................. 51
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 52
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................52
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................52
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................53
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................54
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 54
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................55
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................56
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario................................................................................................57
Viewing Files............................................................................................................................................................... 57
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 58
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 58
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................ 59
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 59
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
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4 Management................................................................................................................................................ 61
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................ 61
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................62
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 62
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................62
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................62
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................62
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 64
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 64
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 64
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................65
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................67
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................67
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................68
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 68
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 68
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................69
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................69
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 69
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 69
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................69
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................70
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions.....................................................................................................................................71
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................. 71
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................72
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 72
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................73
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................73
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 74
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level.................................................................................................................... 74
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 76
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 76
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................77
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services.................................................................................................. 77
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 77
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................77
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 78
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 78
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................79
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................80
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode....................................................................................................................81
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device...........................................................................................................81
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 82
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................82
Recovering from a Forgotten Password on the S6000.............................................................................................. 82
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Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................83
Recovering from a Failed Start on the S6000............................................................................................................. 83
Restoring the Factory Default Settings.........................................................................................................................84
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................84
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables................................................................................................. 85
Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot.............................................................................................................. 86
Disabling Syslog Messages for SNMP Authentication Failure Events...................................................................... 86
5 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................87
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................89
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................89
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................90
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 90
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................90
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................. 91
Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................92
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................93
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................93
Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................94
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions...........................................................................................................95
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 95
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 96
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................ 97
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................98
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 99
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.........................................................................................................................100
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................100
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 100
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM).................................. 102
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 102
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups........................................................................................................... 103
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................103
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 103
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................104
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 105
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 106
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 108
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................109
CAM Usage................................................................................................................................................................110
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................ 110
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................................112
Conguration Task List for Route Maps.................................................................................................................112
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................114
Conguring Set Conditions......................................................................................................................................116
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Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution..................................................................................................117
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................ 117
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................ 118
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 118
IP Fragments ACL Examples................................................................................................................................... 118
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples................................................................................................................................... 119
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................119
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter..................................................................................................................... 120
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................121
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................121
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................124
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................125
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................125
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................126
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................126
Congure Ingress ACLs..................................................................................................................................................127
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 127
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 128
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 129
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 129
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 133
Conguring a Remark.............................................................................................................................................. 133
Deleting a Remark.................................................................................................................................................... 134
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 134
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................135
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................136
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 136
Conguring UDF ACL.................................................................................................................................................... 136
Conguring IP Mirror Access Group............................................................................................................................ 139
Sample Conguration...............................................................................................................................................139
Example of viewing IP mirror–access–group applied to an Interface................................................................140
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)................................................................................................... 141
How BFD Works.............................................................................................................................................................. 141
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................142
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 143
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 144
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................146
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 146
Congure BFD.................................................................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................149
Congure BFD for IPv6 Static Routes...................................................................................................................152
Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................155
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................159
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Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................162
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 164
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................172
Conguring Protocol Liveness.................................................................................................................................174
9 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)................................................................................................................ 175
BGP IP version 4 (BGPv4) Overview.......................................................................................................................... 175
BGP Autonomous Systems.....................................................................................................................................175
AS4 Number Representation...................................................................................................................................177
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................179
BGP router ID............................................................................................................................................................179
Sessions and Peers...................................................................................................................................................179
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................180
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path.................................................................................................................180
Multiprotocol BGP....................................................................................................................................................185
BGP global and address family conguration........................................................................................................186
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS...................................................................................................188
Conguration Information........................................................................................................................................ 191
Basic BGP conguration tasks...................................................................................................................................... 191
Prerequisite for conguring a BGP network..........................................................................................................191
Restrictions............................................................................................................................................................... 192
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 192
Enabling four-byte autonomous system numbers................................................................................................194
Changing a BGP router ID.......................................................................................................................................195
Conguring AS4 Number Representations...........................................................................................................195
Conguring a BGP peer...........................................................................................................................................197
Example-Conguring BGP routing between peers.............................................................................................. 198
BGP peer group........................................................................................................................................................199
Advanced BGP conguration tasks.............................................................................................................................205
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration............................................................................................................... 206
Aggregating Routes.................................................................................................................................................208
Filtering BGP.............................................................................................................................................................210
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over............................................................................................................................. 217
Conguring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 218
Enabling Graceful Restart........................................................................................................................................219
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................220
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................ 221
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................ 222
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 223
Congure BGP attributes....................................................................................................................................... 224
Enabling Multipath...................................................................................................................................................228
Route Reectors......................................................................................................................................................229
Enabling Route Flap Dampening............................................................................................................................ 230
Changing BGP keepalive and hold timers.............................................................................................................232
Setting the extended timer.....................................................................................................................................233
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................234
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Route Map Continue............................................................................................................................................... 235
Conguring BGP Confederations.......................................................................................................................... 235
Conguring a BGP VRF address family................................................................................................................ 236
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.................................................................................237
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path...................................................................................... 238
Enabling MBGP Congurations............................................................................................................................. 239
MBGP support for IPv6..........................................................................................................................................239
Conguring IPv6 MBGP between peers.............................................................................................................. 240
Example-Conguring IPv4 and IPv6 neighbors................................................................................................... 240
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor......................................... 243
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.................................................................................................................. 244
Debugging BGP....................................................................................................................................................... 245
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................247
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................247
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................249
View CAM Proles.........................................................................................................................................................249
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 250
View CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................251
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................252
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 252
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 253
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................253
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................253
Syslog Error When the Table is Full....................................................................................................................... 254
Syslog Warning Upon 90 Percent Utilization of CAM.........................................................................................254
Syslog Warning for Discrepancies Between Congured Extended Prexes....................................................254
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes......................................................................................................................254
Conguring UFT Modes......................................................................................................................................... 254
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 256
Congure Control Plane Policing..................................................................................................................................257
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 258
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 260
Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping...........................................................................................................................261
Conguring Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping......................................................................................................261
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 262
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 264
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 264
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 265
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................266
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................267
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.................................................................................................................. 268
Enabling Data Center Bridging.....................................................................................................................................268
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................269
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Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................270
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 270
Conguring Lossless Queues........................................................................................................................................ 271
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map....................................................................................................................................273
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................273
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 274
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map......................................................................................................................... 274
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:.................................................................................................................. 274
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method..............................................................................276
Behavior of Tagged Packets......................................................................................................................................... 277
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................ 277
SNMP Support for PFC and Buer Statistics Tracking............................................................................................278
Performing PFC Using DSCP Bits Instead of 802.1p Bits.........................................................................................279
PFC and ETS Conguration Examples........................................................................................................................280
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac.................................................................................................. 280
Operations on Untagged Packets................................................................................................................................280
Generation of PFC for a Priority for Untagged Packets............................................................................................281
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection.............................................................................................................. 281
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................ 281
Creating an ETS Priority Group.............................................................................................................................. 281
ETS Operation with DCBx...................................................................................................................................... 282
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN.................................................................................................283
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................284
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies.........................................................................................................285
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................285
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 286
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................286
DCBx Operation.......................................................................................................................................................286
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 286
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 288
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................288
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................289
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version...................................................................... 289
DCBx Example......................................................................................................................................................... 289
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................290
Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................290
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 294
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................302
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 303
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................304
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples.............................................................................................. 306
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 307
DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................307
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................309
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 310
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Congure the System to be a DHCP Server.............................................................................................................. 310
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation................................................................................... 311
Specifying a Default Gateway.................................................................................................................................312
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution...................................................................................................... 313
Using DNS for Address Resolution.........................................................................................................................313
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution...................................................................................................... 313
Creating Manual Binding Entries.............................................................................................................................313
Debugging the DHCP Server..................................................................................................................................314
Using DHCP Clear Commands............................................................................................................................... 314
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client................................................................................................................314
Conguring the DHCP Client System....................................................................................................................315
DHCP Client on a Management Interface.............................................................................................................316
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features........................................................................................................317
DHCP Relay When DHCP Server and Client are in Dierent VRFs.........................................................................318
Conguring Route Leaking between VRFs on DHCP Relay Agent.................................................................... 318
Non-default VRF conguration for DHCPv6 helper address....................................................................................319
Conguring DHCP relay source interface....................................................................................................................319
Global DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ........................................................................................319
Interface level DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ..........................................................................320
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230).................................................................................... 321
Congure Secure DHCP................................................................................................................................................321
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................322
DHCPv6 relay agent options.................................................................................................................................. 322
DHCP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 323
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet............................................................................................................ 327
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................328
Dynamic ARP Inspection.........................................................................................................................................328
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection................................................................................................................... 329
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................ 330
Enabling IP Source Address Validation..................................................................................................................330
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................. 331
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation........................................................................................................331
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................332
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets................................................................................................... 332
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 333
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity.....................................................................................................................................333
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 333
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 333
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed.................................................................................................................. 334
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 334
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................335
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle..........................................................................................................................335
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................335
Support for /128 IPv6 and /32 IPv4 Prexes in Layer 3 Host Table and LPM Table......................................336
Support for ECMP in host table.............................................................................................................................337
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Support for moving /128 IPv6 Prexes and /32 IPv4 Prexes .........................................................................337
RTAG7............................................................................................................................................................................. 337
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP................................................................................................................................... 338
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 341
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................341
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................341
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 343
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................345
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 345
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................345
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 345
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................346
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................347
Congure the FC-MAP Value.................................................................................................................................347
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 347
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................347
Impact on Other Software Features......................................................................................................................347
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 348
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................348
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................349
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................354
16 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................356
Flex Hash Capability Overview.................................................................................................................................... 356
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................356
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover................................................................................................... 357
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................357
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled.............................................................. 357
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism................................................................................358
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................359
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 359
LACP and IPv6 Routing..........................................................................................................................................359
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 360
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System............................................................................................... 360
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................360
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 360
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................360
Changes to BGP Multipath..................................................................................................................................... 361
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP................................................................................................... 361
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................ 361
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 362
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 363
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................363
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 364
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Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 364
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................365
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................366
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................367
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................367
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................367
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 367
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs...................................................................................................... 369
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................370
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 370
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 370
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................370
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 371
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................371
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................371
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................372
Example Scenario.....................................................................................................................................................373
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................374
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................375
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................375
Congure GVRP.............................................................................................................................................................376
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 376
Enabling GVRP Globally.................................................................................................................................................377
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................ 377
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................377
Congure a GARP Timer...............................................................................................................................................378
19 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)..........................................................................................379
IGMP Implementation Information...............................................................................................................................379
IGMP Protocol Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 379
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 379
IGMP Version 3.........................................................................................................................................................381
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 384
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................384
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces...............................................................................................................................385
Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................385
Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................386
Viewing IGMP Snooping Groups................................................................................................................................. 386
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 386
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 386
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................387
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................388
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 388
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................388
Removing a Group-Port Association.....................................................................................................................389
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Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................389
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 389
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 390
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................390
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................390
Protocol Separation..................................................................................................................................................391
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 392
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 393
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 393
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................394
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 395
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................395
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................396
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................397
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications..................................................................................................... 397
Designating a Multicast Router Interface...................................................................................................................398
20 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 399
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................399
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................399
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................400
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................400
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................402
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................403
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................403
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................403
40G to 1G Breakout Cable Adaptor....................................................................................................................... 403
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 404
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode................................................................................................................. 405
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 405
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................405
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 406
Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface....................................................................................................... 407
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................407
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................408
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 408
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 408
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................409
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 409
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................ 410
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................. 411
Loopback Interfaces.......................................................................................................................................................412
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................. 412
Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................412
Port Channel Denition and Standards..................................................................................................................413
Port Channel Benets..............................................................................................................................................413
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Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................. 413
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................414
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................414
Creating a Port Channel.......................................................................................................................................... 414
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 415
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................416
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 417
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 417
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................418
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................419
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 419
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................419
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 420
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................420
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 421
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 422
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 422
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 422
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................423
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 424
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 424
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................425
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................427
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port.................................................................................. 427
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................428
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................428
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................432
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................432
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................433
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................433
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................435
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 436
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.........................................................................................................437
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 437
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................438
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................439
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................439
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 439
Set Auto-Negotiation Options............................................................................................................................... 440
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................441
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 442
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................443
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 444
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................444
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 445
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21 IPv4 Routing.............................................................................................................................................448
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................449
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................449
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................449
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................449
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................ 450
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface...........................................................................................451
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................452
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 452
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 452
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 453
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................453
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................453
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 454
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................454
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 455
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 455
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................455
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................456
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................456
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP............................................................................................................................... 456
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................457
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 457
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................458
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 458
Conguration Tasks for ICMP......................................................................................................................................458
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 458
ICMP Redirects..............................................................................................................................................................459
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................460
Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................ 460
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 460
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................460
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 460
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 461
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses................................................................................................................. 461
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................462
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................462
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................463
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................463
22 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................464
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................464
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................465
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 465
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................465
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Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support................................................................... 466
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................467
Extension Header Fields......................................................................................................................................... 469
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 470
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS....................................................................................................471
ICMPv6........................................................................................................................................................................... 472
Path MTU discovery......................................................................................................................................................473
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 473
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................474
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................474
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host ..................................................................................... 475
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................475
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 476
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 476
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................476
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface........................................................................................................... 477
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................ 478
Conguring Telnet with IPv6.................................................................................................................................. 478
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................479
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 479
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information.............................................................................................................. 479
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................480
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................481
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................482
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 482
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 483
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................484
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard..................................................................................................................................... 485
23 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................486
iSCSI Optimization Overview.......................................................................................................................................486
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................488
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 488
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................488
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays........................................................................... 489
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................489
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................490
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................490
Default iSCSI Optimization Values................................................................................................................................491
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................. 491
Conguring iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................... 491
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................493
24 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 495
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 495
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................495
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Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 496
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 496
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................497
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................497
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................497
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................497
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................497
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................498
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................499
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................506
Changing the IS-Type.............................................................................................................................................. 507
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................509
Redistributing IPv6 Routes......................................................................................................................................510
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................. 511
Setting the Overload Bit...........................................................................................................................................511
Debugging IS-IS........................................................................................................................................................512
IS-IS Metric Styles..........................................................................................................................................................513
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................ 513
Maximum Values in the Routing Table................................................................................................................... 513
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only.................................................................................................513
Leaks from One Level to Another...........................................................................................................................515
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................516
25 In-Service Software Upgrade................................................................................................................... 518
ISSU Introduction........................................................................................................................................................... 518
Warmboot Limitations..............................................................................................................................................518
Fastboot 2.0 (Zero Loss Upgrade)............................................................................................................................... 518
L2 ISSU............................................................................................................................................................................519
L3 ISSU............................................................................................................................................................................519
CoPP............................................................................................................................................................................... 520
Mirroring ow control packets..................................................................................................................................... 520
PFC..................................................................................................................................................................................520
QoS..................................................................................................................................................................................520
Tunnel Conguration..................................................................................................................................................... 520
26 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 522
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 522
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 522
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 523
Conguring LACP Commands............................................................................................................................... 523
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 524
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................524
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 524
Setting the LACP Long Timeout........................................................................................................................... 525
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................525
Shared LAG State Tracking.......................................................................................................................................... 526
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Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking...............................................................................................................526
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 528
LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................ 528
Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 528
27 Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................... 537
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 537
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 537
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................ 537
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................538
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 538
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................538
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 539
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 539
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 539
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 540
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 540
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................540
Setting Station Move Violation Actions.................................................................................................................541
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations............................................................................541
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................542
Enabling port security............................................................................................................................................. 542
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 542
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................543
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 545
Far-End Failure Detection.............................................................................................................................................546
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................547
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 548
Enabling FEFD on an Interface.............................................................................................................................. 548
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................549
28 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)......................................................................................................551
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................ 551
Protocol Data Units..................................................................................................................................................551
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................552
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 552
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................ 554
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................ 554
Congure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................. 558
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................558
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 558
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................559
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................559
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................559
Disabling and Undoing LLDP..................................................................................................................................560
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................560
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Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports..........................................................................................560
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................560
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................562
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 562
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..............................................................................................562
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 562
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 563
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................563
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors.............................................................................. 563
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................565
Conguring LLDP Notication Interval....................................................................................................................... 566
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode................................................................................................................... 566
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 567
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................567
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 569
29 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 574
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................ 574
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario..................................................................................................................................... 574
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................575
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................575
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding .............................................................................................................................575
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................575
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.....................................................................................................................576
30 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 577
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 577
Anycast RP..................................................................................................................................................................... 578
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................579
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................ 579
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 579
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 583
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 584
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................584
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................584
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................585
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 585
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check..................................................................................... 585
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................588
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................589
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................589
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 590
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 590
Logging Changes in Peership States........................................................................................................................... 591
Terminating a Peership...................................................................................................................................................591
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................592
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Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 592
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................593
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................594
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 595
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................595
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................597
31 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................600
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................600
Spanning Tree Variations............................................................................................................................................... 601
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 601
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol.................................................................................................................601
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................602
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 602
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................602
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 603
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................604
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................604
Changing the Region Name or Revision.....................................................................................................................605
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................605
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 606
Setting STP path cost as constant............................................................................................................................. 607
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 608
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 608
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................609
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................609
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations......................................................................................................... 612
32 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................614
Enabling IP Multicast......................................................................................................................................................614
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 614
Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................................615
IPv4 Multicast Policies.............................................................................................................................................615
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)...........................................................................................................622
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 623
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 623
Supported Error Codes................................................................................................................................................. 624
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................625
33 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................ 631
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................. 631
Track Layer 2 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................632
Track Layer 3 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................632
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes................................................................................................................................... 633
Set Tracking Delays................................................................................................................................................. 634
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