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Dell Conguration Guide for the S4820T System
9.14.1.0
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2018 - 11
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................36
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................36
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 36
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 37
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................ 37
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................37
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................39
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................44
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................46
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 47
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 47
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................48
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................48
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................48
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 49
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 49
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................49
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................49
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 49
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................50
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................50
Conguring the Enable Password...................................................................................................................................51
Conguration File Management......................................................................................................................................51
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 52
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................52
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................54
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 55
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................55
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 56
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option......................................................................... 56
View Command History...................................................................................................................................................57
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS.............................................................................................................................57
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Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 57
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................58
4 Management............................................................................................................................................... 60
Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 60
Creating a Custom Privilege Level............................................................................................................................61
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode............................................................................................................... 61
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................ 61
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands.....................................................................................61
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................ 61
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 63
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 63
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 63
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 64
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................66
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration..................................................................................66
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............................................................................................................68
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......................................................................................................................71
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......................................................................................................................................... 75
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 76
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................76
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................................................................................................ 78
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................79
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode...................................................................................................................80
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device...........................................................................................................81
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Lock CONFIGURATION Mode........................................................................................................................................81
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status................................................................................................................... 81
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 82
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.....................................................................................................83
Recovering from a Failed Start.......................................................................................................................................84
Restoring the Factory Default Settings.........................................................................................................................84
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................84
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables................................................................................................. 85
Dell EMC Networking OS Security Hardening............................................................................................................. 86
Dell EMC Networking OS Image Verication......................................................................................................... 86
Startup Conguration Verication............................................................................................................................87
Conguring the root User Password....................................................................................................................... 88
Locking Access to GRUB Interface......................................................................................................................... 89
Enabling User Lockout for Failed Login Attempts..................................................................................................90
5 802.1X.......................................................................................................................................................... 91
Port-Authentication Process.......................................................................................................................................... 93
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................93
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................94
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 94
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................94
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 95
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................96
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions........................................................................................................... 97
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication......................................................................................97
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 98
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................99
Conguring Timeouts.................................................................................................................................................... 100
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication..........................................................................101
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.........................................................................................................................102
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................102
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 102
Conguring dot1x Prole .............................................................................................................................................. 103
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole ........................................................................................................... 104
Conguring Critical VLAN ............................................................................................................................................ 105
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM).................................. 106
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 106
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups............................................................................................................107
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................107
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 107
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................108
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 109
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes................................................................................................................... 110
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................112
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IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................113
CAM Usage................................................................................................................................................................114
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS.................................................................................................114
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 116
IP Fragments ACL Examples................................................................................................................................... 116
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples....................................................................................................................................117
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................117
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter......................................................................................................................118
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................119
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................119
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number................................................................................................. 121
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 121
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................122
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................122
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................123
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 123
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 124
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 125
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 125
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 126
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 126
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Conguring a Remark.............................................................................................................................................. 129
Deleting a Remark.................................................................................................................................................... 130
ACL Resequencing..........................................................................................................................................................131
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List........................................................................................................................131
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................132
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 132
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 133
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................ 133
Conguring Match Routes...................................................................................................................................... 135
Conguring Set Conditions..................................................................................................................................... 136
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution................................................................................................. 137
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging........................................................................................................... 138
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................138
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 139
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging................................................................................................................139
Conguring ACL Logging........................................................................................................................................ 140
Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................140
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring....................................................................................................................... 141
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................142
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 144
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 144
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................145
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 146
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BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 147
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................149
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 149
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 149
Congure BFD for Physical Ports.......................................................................................................................... 150
Congure BFD for Static Routes.............................................................................................................................151
Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................154
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................158
Congure BFD for IS-IS............................................................................................................................................161
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 163
Congure BFD for VRRP..........................................................................................................................................171
Conguring Protocol Liveness.................................................................................................................................174
Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................ 174
9 Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4)..............................................................................................176
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 176
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................178
Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 178
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................179
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path.......................................................................................................................180
Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................180
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................182
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................182
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................183
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................184
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................185
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 185
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................185
MBGP for IPv4 MulticastBGP Address Family modelIPv4 and IPv6 address family....................................... 186
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS.........................................................................................................186
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................186
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes.........................................................................................187
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation.............................................................................................................187
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................187
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 188
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 189
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................190
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................190
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................. 191
Enabling BGP.................................................................................................................................................................. 192
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 193
Conguring AS4 Number Representations...........................................................................................................195
Conguring Peer Groups......................................................................................................................................... 197
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................199
Conguring Passive Peering...................................................................................................................................200
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.................................................................................201
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Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path...................................................................................... 202
Enabling Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................203
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart......................................................................................................................204
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute.......................................................................................................................... 204
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................206
Redistributing Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 207
Enabling Additional Paths....................................................................................................................................... 208
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................ 208
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 209
Filtering Routes with Community Lists..................................................................................................................210
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute..............................................................................................................211
Changing MED Attributes....................................................................................................................................... 212
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute...................................................................................................212
Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............. 213
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................214
Enabling Multipath....................................................................................................................................................214
Filtering BGP Routes................................................................................................................................................214
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................216
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 216
Conguring BGP Route Reectors.........................................................................................................................217
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................218
Conguring BGP Confederations........................................................................................................................... 218
Enabling Route Flap Dampening.............................................................................................................................219
Changing BGP Timers..............................................................................................................................................221
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration................................................................................................................221
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................223
Route Map Continue............................................................................................................................................... 224
Enabling MBGP Congurations....................................................................................................................................224
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor......................................... 225
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................ 227
Debugging BGP..............................................................................................................................................................227
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................228
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 229
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 230
Example-Conguring BGP peer groups......................................................................................................................230
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................237
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................237
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................239
View CAM Proles.........................................................................................................................................................239
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 240
View CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................241
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................242
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period..........................................................................................................242
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 243
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................243
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QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................243
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 245
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 246
Conguring CoPP for Protocols.............................................................................................................................247
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 249
CoPP for OSPFv3 Packets.................................................................................................................................... 250
Conguring CoPP for OSPFv3.............................................................................................................................. 253
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 253
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB).....................................................................................................................256
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 256
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 257
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................258
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................259
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.................................................................................................................. 260
Enabling Data Center Bridging.....................................................................................................................................260
DCB Maps and its Attributes.................................................................................................................................. 261
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................262
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................262
Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 263
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 264
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................264
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................265
Applying a DCB Map on a Port....................................................................................................................................265
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................266
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................266
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................267
Pause and Resume of Trac..................................................................................................................................268
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets............................................................................................................ 268
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................268
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................269
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................270
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................270
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................270
Creating an ETS Priority Group..............................................................................................................................270
ETS Operation with DCBx.......................................................................................................................................271
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN.................................................................................................272
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................273
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies..........................................................................................................274
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac................................................................................................... 274
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 275
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................275
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 275
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 275
DCB Conguration Exchange.................................................................................................................................277
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Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................277
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................278
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version.......................................................................278
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................278
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................279
Conguring DCBx.................................................................................................................................................... 279
Verifying the DCB Conguration..................................................................................................................................283
Sample DCB Conguration........................................................................................................................................... 291
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................293
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................293
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 294
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP).........................................................................................296
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 296
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................298
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................299
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server............................................................................................................. 299
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................300
Specifying a Default Gateway.................................................................................................................................301
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution...................................................................................................... 301
Using DNS for Address Resolution.........................................................................................................................301
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution..................................................................................................... 302
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................302
Debugging the DHCP Server.................................................................................................................................302
Using DHCP Clear Commands.............................................................................................................................. 303
Congure the System to be a Relay Agent................................................................................................................ 303
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client...............................................................................................................305
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features.......................................................................................................305
DHCP Client on a Management Interface............................................................................................................306
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)....................................................................................307
Conguring DHCP relay source interface................................................................................................................... 307
Global DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ....................................................................................... 307
Interface level DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ..........................................................................308
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................309
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................309
DHCP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................310
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet.............................................................................................................314
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only.................................................................................................... 315
Dynamic ARP Inspection......................................................................................................................................... 315
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection....................................................................................................................316
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................. 317
Enabling IP Source Address Validation................................................................................................................... 317
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................. 318
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation........................................................................................................318
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets.................................................................................................... 319
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................319
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14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 320
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity.....................................................................................................................................320
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 320
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 320
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed................................................................................................................... 321
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 321
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................322
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle.......................................................................................................................... 322
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................322
RTAG7............................................................................................................................................................................. 323
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP....................................................................................................................................324
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 327
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................327
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................ 327
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 329
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack....................................................................................................................................331
Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................ 331
FIP Snooping Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................331
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 331
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................332
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................333
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 333
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................333
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................333
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 333
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 334
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................334
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................335
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................340
16 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................342
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 342
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................342
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 343
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................343
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................343
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 344
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 345
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................345
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 346
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 346
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 347
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 348
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Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................349
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 349
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................349
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................350
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs....................................................................................................... 351
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................352
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................352
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................352
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................352
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 353
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................353
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................353
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................354
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 355
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 356
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................357
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................357
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 358
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................358
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 359
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................359
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 359
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 360
RPM Redundancy..........................................................................................................................................................360
19 High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................................... 362
Component Redundancy.............................................................................................................................................. 362
RPM Redundancy....................................................................................................................................................362
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover.......................................................................................................... 364
Support for RPM Redundancy by Dell EMC Networking OS Version.............................................................. 365
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units..............................................................................365
Conguring RPM Redundancy.............................................................................................................................. 365
Online Insertion and Removal.......................................................................................................................................366
RPM Online Insertion and Removal.......................................................................................................................366
Linecard Online Insertion and Removal................................................................................................................. 367
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 368
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................368
Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 369
Software Component Health Monitoring............................................................................................................. 369
System Health Monitoring......................................................................................................................................369
Failure and Event Logging...................................................................................................................................... 369
Hot-Lock Behavior.........................................................................................................................................................370
Process Restartability....................................................................................................................................................370
Enabling Process Restartability..............................................................................................................................370
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20 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 372
IGMP Implementation Information...............................................................................................................................372
IGMP Protocol Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 372
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 372
IGMP Version 3.........................................................................................................................................................374
Congure IGMP..............................................................................................................................................................377
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 377
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces............................................................................................................................... 378
Selecting an IGMP Version........................................................................................................................................... 378
Viewing IGMP Groups................................................................................................................................................... 379
Adjusting Timers.............................................................................................................................................................379
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 379
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave................................................................................................................................ 380
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................380
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information.......................................................................................................380
Conguring IGMP Snooping................................................................................................................................... 381
Removing a Group-Port Association......................................................................................................................381
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................382
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 382
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 382
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................383
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................383
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................384
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 385
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 385
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 386
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................387
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).....................................................................................................387
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type..................................................................................... 387
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 388
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................389
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................390
Designating a Multicast Router Interface....................................................................................................................391
21 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 392
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................392
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................392
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................393
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................393
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................395
Enabling Energy Ecient Ethernet............................................................................................................................. 396
View EEE Information................................................................................................................................................... 396
Clear EEE Counters.......................................................................................................................................................400
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................ 401
Physical Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................... 401
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Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................402
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 402
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................402
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 403
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................403
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 404
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................404
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 404
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................405
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................405
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 405
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................407
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................407
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................408
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 409
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................409
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................409
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................409
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................ 409
Interfaces in Port Channels.....................................................................................................................................410
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 410
Creating a Port Channel...........................................................................................................................................411
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel...................................................................................................... 411
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel.................................................................................................413
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel............................................................................... 413
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN.............................................................................................. 414
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................415
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................415
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 415
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................416
Bulk Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 417
Interface Range.........................................................................................................................................................417
Bulk Conguration Examples...................................................................................................................................417
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................419
Dene the Interface Range..................................................................................................................................... 419
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.....................................................................................................................419
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................ 419
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 420
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics.................................................................................................421
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 421
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................422
Conguration Example of Link Dampening...........................................................................................................422
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................424
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 425
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 426
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Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 426
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.................................................................................................................... 427
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................428
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 428
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................ 428
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................429
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................430
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 431
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally...........................................................................................................432
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 433
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................434
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 434
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)...........................................................................................................438
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................438
23 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................440
IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................441
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 441
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 441
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface........................................................................................................................441
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................442
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 443
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 444
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................444
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................444
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 444
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 445
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 445
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................445
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................446
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 446
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................447
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................447
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 448
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................448
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................448
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................449
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................449
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................449
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 449
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................450
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................ 451
Conguration Tasks for ICMP.......................................................................................................................................451
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages....................................................................................................................... 451
UDP Helper..................................................................................................................................................................... 451
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Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................. 451
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 452
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................452
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 452
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 453
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................453
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................454
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................454
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................455
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................455
24 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................456
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................456
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................457
Stateless Autoconguration....................................................................................................................................457
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................457
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................458
Extension Header Fields......................................................................................................................................... 460
Addressing.................................................................................................................................................................461
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................... 462
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................463
Path MTU discovery......................................................................................................................................................464
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 464
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets.......................................................................................................... 465
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.................................................................................................................... 465
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 465
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................466
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................467
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 467
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 468
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................468
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................469
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................469
Conguring Telnet with IPv6.................................................................................................................................. 470
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................470
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 470
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information............................................................................................................... 471
Showing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................471
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 473
Clearing IPv6 Routes............................................................................................................................................... 473
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 473
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard...........................................................................................................................................474
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................475
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard......................................................................................................................................476
25 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................477
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iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 477
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................479
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows......................................................................................479
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows....................................................................................................... 479
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................480
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................480
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer..................................................................481
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization..................................................................................................................481
Default iSCSI Optimization Values...............................................................................................................................482
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 482
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................482
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................484
26 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 486
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 486
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................486
Multi-Topology IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................487
Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................487
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................488
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................488
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................488
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................488
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................488
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................489
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................490
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................497
Changing the IS-Type.............................................................................................................................................. 498
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................500
Redistributing IPv6 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 501
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................502
Setting the Overload Bit.........................................................................................................................................502
Debugging IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................503
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................504
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 504
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 504
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................504
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................506
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 507
27 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 509
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 509
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 509
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................510
Conguring LACP Commands................................................................................................................................510
LACP Conguration Tasks..............................................................................................................................................511
Creating a LAG.......................................................................................................................................................... 511
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Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic..........................................................................................................511
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................ 512
Monitoring and Debugging LACP...........................................................................................................................512
Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................................................................... 513
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking................................................................................................................513
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................515
LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................. 515
Congure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................515
28 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................524
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 524
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 524
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................524
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................525
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 525
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................525
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 526
mac learning-limit Dynamic.....................................................................................................................................526
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 526
mac learning-limit station-move.............................................................................................................................527
mac learning-limit no-station-move.......................................................................................................................527
Learning Limit Violation Actions............................................................................................................................. 527
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 528
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations........................................................................... 528
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................529
Enabling port security............................................................................................................................................. 529
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 529
Congure Redundant Pairs.......................................................................................................................................... 530
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 532
Far-End Failure Detection.............................................................................................................................................533
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................534
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 535
Enabling FEFD on an Interface.............................................................................................................................. 535
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................536
29 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 538
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................538
Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 538
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................539
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 539
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................. 541
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs.........................................................................................................................541
Congure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................. 545
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................545
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 545
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................546
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CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 546
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................546
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 547
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 547
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 548
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................548
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors.............................................................................. 549
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................550
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode.................................................................................................................... 551
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 552
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................552
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 553
30 Microsoft Network Load Balancing..........................................................................................................559
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................559
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................559
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................560
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................560
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 560
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................560
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.....................................................................................................................561
31 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)..........................................................................................562
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................562
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................563
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 564
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................564
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................564
Enable MSDP.................................................................................................................................................................568
Manage the Source-Active Cache..............................................................................................................................569
Viewing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 569
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................569
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 570
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 570
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................570
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................573
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer................................................................................................... 574
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source....................................................................................................... 574
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 575
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................575
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................576
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................576
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................. 577
Debugging MSDP...........................................................................................................................................................577
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................578
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................579
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Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 580
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................580
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................582
32 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................ 585
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................585
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 586
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 586
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................586
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 587
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally.......................................................................................................................587
Adding and Removing Interfaces................................................................................................................................. 587
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 588
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................589
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................589
Changing the Region Name or Revision.....................................................................................................................590
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................590
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................ 591
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 592
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 593
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................593
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................594
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations.........................................................................................................597
33 Multicast Features...................................................................................................................................599
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................599
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 599
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................600
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................600
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace)...........................................................................................................607
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 608
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 608
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................609
mtrace Scenarios............................................................................................................................................................610
34 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................ 616
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................. 616
Track Layer 2 Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................617
Track Layer 3 Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................617
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes....................................................................................................................................618
Set Tracking Delays..................................................................................................................................................619
VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................. 619
Object Tracking Conguration...................................................................................................................................... 619
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface....................................................................................................................................619
Tracking a Layer 3 Interface................................................................................................................................... 620
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