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Dell PowerSwitch S6000 Administrator Guide

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Dell Conguration Guide for the S6000 System
9.11(2.1P1)
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2017 - 06
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................35
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................35
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 35
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 36
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................36
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................36
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 38
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................41
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................42
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................43
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 43
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................44
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................45
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................46
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................46
Default Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................47
Conguring a Host Name................................................................................................................................................47
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................47
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................47
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 48
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................48
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................48
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................49
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................49
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 49
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................50
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................52
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 52
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................52
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 53
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 54
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 54
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 54
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................55
4 Management................................................................................................................................................57
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Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................57
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................58
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 58
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................58
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................58
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................58
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username...............................................................................................................60
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 60
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 60
Audit and Security Logs.............................................................................................................................................61
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................63
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................63
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................64
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 64
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 64
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................65
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................65
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 65
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................65
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................66
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................67
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions.............................................................................67
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................68
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 68
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 69
Changing System Logging Settings.............................................................................................................................. 69
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 70
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................70
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 72
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 72
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................73
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................73
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 73
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................73
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 74
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................75
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................76
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode....................................................................................................................77
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device.......................................................................................................... 77
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 78
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................78
Recovering from a Forgotten Password on the S6000.............................................................................................. 78
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password...........................................................................................................79
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Recovering from a Failed Start on the S6000..............................................................................................................79
Restoring the Factory Default Settings........................................................................................................................ 80
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................80
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables.................................................................................................. 81
5 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................83
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................85
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................85
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................86
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 86
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................86
Enabling 802.1X.................................................................................................................................................................87
Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................88
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................89
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................89
Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................90
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions............................................................................................................91
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication...................................................................................... 91
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 92
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................93
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 95
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.......................................................................................................................... 96
Conguring a Guest VLAN....................................................................................................................................... 96
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN...............................................................................................................96
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................98
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs...................................................................98
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................99
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters................................................99
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups................................................................................................................................99
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................100
Viewing CAM Usage....................................................................................................................................................... 101
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 102
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 104
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................105
CAM Usage...............................................................................................................................................................106
Implementing ACLs on Dell Networking OS..........................................................................................................106
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................108
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................108
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................110
Conguring Set Conditions.......................................................................................................................................111
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution..................................................................................................112
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................ 113
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................ 113
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IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 114
IP Fragments ACL Examples....................................................................................................................................114
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples................................................................................................................................... 114
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................115
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter......................................................................................................................116
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................117
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................117
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................120
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................120
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................121
Applying an IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................................121
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................122
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 122
Congure Egress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 123
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 124
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 125
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 125
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 128
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................129
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................130
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 130
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 130
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring....................................................................................................................... 131
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................132
Conguring UDF ACL.....................................................................................................................................................133
Conguring IP Mirror Access Group............................................................................................................................ 135
Sample Conguration...............................................................................................................................................136
Example of viewing IP mirror–access–group applied to an Interface................................................................136
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)...................................................................................................137
How BFD Works..............................................................................................................................................................137
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................138
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 139
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 140
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................142
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 142
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 142
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................143
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................144
Congure BFD for OSPF......................................................................................................................................... 147
Congure BFD for OSPFv3......................................................................................................................................151
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................154
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 157
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................163
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................166
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Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................166
9 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).................................................................................................... 168
Autonomous Systems (AS)...........................................................................................................................................168
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................170
Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 170
Route Reectors..............................................................................................................................................................171
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................172
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 172
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................ 174
Local Preference....................................................................................................................................................... 174
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................175
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................176
AS Path...................................................................................................................................................................... 177
Next Hop....................................................................................................................................................................177
Multiprotocol BGP.......................................................................................................................................................... 177
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................178
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support...................................................................................................................... 178
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes.........................................................................................178
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 179
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................179
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 179
AS Number Migration............................................................................................................................................... 181
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................182
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 182
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................183
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 183
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 184
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 187
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................189
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over..............................................................................................................................191
Conguring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 193
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................. 193
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 194
Enabling Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................... 195
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................... 196
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 196
Regular Expressions as Filters.................................................................................................................................198
Redistributing Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 199
Enabling Additional Paths....................................................................................................................................... 200
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................ 200
Conguring an IP Extended Community List........................................................................................................201
Filtering Routes with Community Lists................................................................................................................. 202
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute............................................................................................................ 203
Changing MED Attributes.......................................................................................................................................204
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..................................................................................................204
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Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............ 205
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute...........................................................................................................................206
Enabling Multipath...................................................................................................................................................206
Filtering BGP Routes...............................................................................................................................................206
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps..............................................................................................................208
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information............................................................................................. 208
Conguring BGP Route Reectors....................................................................................................................... 209
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................210
Conguring BGP Confederations...........................................................................................................................210
Enabling Route Flap Dampening..............................................................................................................................211
Changing BGP Timers..............................................................................................................................................213
Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconguration......................................................................................................213
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors......................................................................................................................214
Route Map Continue................................................................................................................................................216
Enabling MBGP Congurations.................................................................................................................................... 216
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor.......................................... 217
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................217
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 217
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................218
Capturing PDUs........................................................................................................................................................219
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 220
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 220
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................227
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................227
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................229
View CAM Proles.........................................................................................................................................................229
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 230
View CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................231
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 232
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................232
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................232
Syslog Error When the Table is Full....................................................................................................................... 232
Syslog Warning Upon 90 Percent Utilization of CAM.........................................................................................233
Syslog Warning for Discrepancies Between Congured Extended Prexes....................................................233
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes......................................................................................................................233
Conguring UFT Modes..........................................................................................................................................233
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 235
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 236
Conguring CoPP for Protocols.............................................................................................................................237
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 239
Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping..........................................................................................................................240
Conguring Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping.....................................................................................................240
Displaying CoPP Conguration ..............................................................................................................................241
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12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 243
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................243
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 244
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................245
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................246
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow...................................................................................................................247
Enabling Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................................................... 247
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................248
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................249
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................249
Conguring Lossless Queues....................................................................................................................................... 250
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 252
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................252
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................253
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................253
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................253
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method............................................................................. 255
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................256
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................256
SNMP Support for PFC and Buer Statistics Tracking............................................................................................257
Performing PFC Using DSCP Bits Instead of 802.1p Bits.........................................................................................258
PFC and ETS Conguration Examples........................................................................................................................258
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac.................................................................................................. 258
Operations on Untagged Packets................................................................................................................................259
Generation of PFC for a Priority for Untagged Packets...........................................................................................259
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................259
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions....................................................................................................................... 259
Creating an ETS Priority Group............................................................................................................................. 260
ETS Operation with DCBx.......................................................................................................................................261
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN................................................................................................. 261
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................262
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 263
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................264
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 264
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................264
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 264
DCBx Port Roles......................................................................................................................................................265
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 266
Conguration Source Election............................................................................................................................... 266
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................267
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version.......................................................................267
DCBx Example......................................................................................................................................................... 268
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................268
Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................268
Verifying the DCB Conguration..................................................................................................................................272
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QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................280
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method.................................................................................................................... 281
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................282
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................284
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP).........................................................................................285
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 285
Assign an IP Address using DHCP............................................................................................................................... 287
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................288
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server..............................................................................................................288
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................289
Specifying a Default Gateway................................................................................................................................290
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution..................................................................................................... 290
Using DNS for Address Resolution........................................................................................................................290
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution...................................................................................................... 291
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................ 291
Debugging the DHCP Server..................................................................................................................................291
Using DHCP Clear Commands...............................................................................................................................292
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client............................................................................................................... 292
Conguring the DHCP Client System...................................................................................................................292
DHCP Client on a Management Interface............................................................................................................294
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features.......................................................................................................294
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)................................................................................... 295
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................295
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................296
DHCP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................................296
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet............................................................................................................300
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................300
Dynamic ARP Inspection......................................................................................................................................... 301
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection................................................................................................................... 302
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................ 303
Enabling IP Source Address Validation..................................................................................................................303
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................ 304
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation.......................................................................................................304
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets................................................................................................... 305
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets...................................................................................................305
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................306
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity.....................................................................................................................................306
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 306
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 306
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed...................................................................................................................307
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................307
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................308
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle..........................................................................................................................308
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold................................................................................................................ 308
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Support for /128 IPv6 and /32 IPv4 Prexes in Layer 3 Host Table and LPM Table......................................309
Support for ECMP in host table............................................................................................................................. 310
Support for moving /128 IPv6 Prexes and /32 IPv4 Prexes .........................................................................310
RTAG7..............................................................................................................................................................................310
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP.....................................................................................................................................311
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 314
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................314
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................314
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges...............................................................................................................................316
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack....................................................................................................................................318
Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................ 318
FIP Snooping Prerequisites......................................................................................................................................318
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 318
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature.........................................................................................................................319
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................320
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 320
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................320
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................320
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 320
FIP Snooping Restrictions....................................................................................................................................... 321
Conguring FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................321
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................322
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................327
16 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................329
Flex Hash Capability Overview.....................................................................................................................................329
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................329
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover...................................................................................................330
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................330
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled..............................................................330
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................331
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................332
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 332
LACP and IPv6 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 332
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 333
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................333
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................333
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 333
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................333
Changes to BGP Multipath.....................................................................................................................................334
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................334
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................334
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces......................................................................................335
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 336
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Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................336
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 337
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................337
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................338
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 339
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................340
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 340
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................340
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................341
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................342
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................343
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................343
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................343
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................343
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 344
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................344
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................344
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................345
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 346
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................347
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................348
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 348
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 349
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................349
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................350
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................350
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 350
Congure a GARP Timer............................................................................................................................................... 351
19 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 352
IGMP Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................. 352
IGMP Protocol Overview..............................................................................................................................................352
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 352
IGMP Version 3........................................................................................................................................................ 354
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 357
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 357
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces...............................................................................................................................358
Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................358
Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................358
Viewing IGMP Snooping Groups................................................................................................................................. 359
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 359
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 359
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave................................................................................................................................ 360
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................360
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information.......................................................................................................360
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Conguring IGMP Snooping................................................................................................................................... 361
Removing a Group-Port Association......................................................................................................................361
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................362
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 362
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 362
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................363
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................363
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................364
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection......................................................................365
Handling of Management Route Conguration...................................................................................................365
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac.......................................................................................................................366
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................367
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).....................................................................................................367
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................367
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 368
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac .......................................................................... 369
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications..................................................................................................... 370
Designating a Multicast Router Interface....................................................................................................................371
20 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................372
Basic Interface Conguration....................................................................................................................................... 372
Advanced Interface Conguration............................................................................................................................... 372
Interface Types............................................................................................................................................................... 373
View Basic Interface Information................................................................................................................................. 373
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................375
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................376
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................376
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 376
40G to 1G Breakout Cable Adaptor....................................................................................................................... 376
Overview of Layer Modes.......................................................................................................................................377
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode.................................................................................................................. 377
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................378
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................378
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................379
Egress Interface Selection (EIS).................................................................................................................................. 379
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 380
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 380
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................380
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 380
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................382
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................383
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................383
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 384
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 384
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................384
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................384
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Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................385
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 385
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................386
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 386
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................386
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................388
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 389
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 389
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 390
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................390
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 391
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................391
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 392
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................392
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................392
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 394
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 394
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 394
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 394
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................395
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 396
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload.............................................................................................................................396
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 398
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................399
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 400
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 400
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................404
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................404
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 404
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................404
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 406
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 407
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 407
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................408
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................409
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................409
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................409
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 410
View Advanced Interface Information.......................................................................................................................... 411
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size............................................................................................................... 412
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 413
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 414
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 415
Compressing Conguration Files..................................................................................................................................415
21 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................. 419
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IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................420
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................420
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................420
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................420
Conguring Static Routes............................................................................................................................................. 421
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 422
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................423
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 423
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 423
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 424
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................424
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................424
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 425
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................425
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................426
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 426
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................426
Enabling Proxy ARP....................................................................................................................................................... 427
Clearing ARP Cache...................................................................................................................................................... 427
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................427
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................428
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 428
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................429
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 429
Conguration Tasks for ICMP...................................................................................................................................... 429
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 429
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................430
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................430
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 430
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................430
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................. 431
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 431
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses..................................................................................................................431
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................432
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.................................................................................................. 432
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................433
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................ 433
22 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................434
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................434
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................435
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 435
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................435
Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support................................................................... 436
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................437
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................439
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Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 440
Implementing IPv6 with Dell Networking OS..............................................................................................................441
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................442
Path MTU Discovery..................................................................................................................................................... 443
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 443
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................444
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 444
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................445
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................445
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 446
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 446
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................446
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface........................................................................................................... 447
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................448
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................448
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................448
Displaying IPv6 Information....................................................................................................................................449
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information.............................................................................................................. 449
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................450
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface..........................................................................................451
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................452
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 452
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 452
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................454
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard..................................................................................................................................... 455
23 iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................. 456
iSCSI Optimization Overview.......................................................................................................................................456
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................458
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 458
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................458
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................459
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................459
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................460
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................460
Default iSCSI Optimization Values................................................................................................................................461
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................. 461
Conguring iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................... 461
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................463
24 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 465
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 465
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................465
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 466
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 466
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................467
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Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................467
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................467
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................467
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................467
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................468
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................469
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................476
Changing the IS-Type...............................................................................................................................................477
Redistributing IPv4 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 479
Redistributing IPv6 Routes.....................................................................................................................................480
Conguring Authentication Passwords..................................................................................................................481
Setting the Overload Bit..........................................................................................................................................481
Debugging IS-IS....................................................................................................................................................... 482
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................483
Congure Metric Values................................................................................................................................................483
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 483
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................483
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................485
Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................................486
25 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 488
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 488
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 488
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 489
Conguring LACP Commands...............................................................................................................................489
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................490
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................490
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................490
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................ 491
Monitoring and Debugging LACP...........................................................................................................................491
Shared LAG State Tracking.......................................................................................................................................... 492
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................... 492
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 494
LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................ 494
Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 494
26 Layer 2.................................................................................................................................................... 503
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 503
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 503
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................503
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................504
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................504
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................504
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 505
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 505
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 505
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mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 506
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 506
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................506
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 507
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations........................................................................... 507
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System................................................................................................ 508
NIC Teaming...................................................................................................................................................................508
Congure Redundant Pairs.......................................................................................................................................... 509
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs..........................................................................................511
Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................512
FEFD State Changes................................................................................................................................................513
Conguring FEFD..................................................................................................................................................... 514
Enabling FEFD on an Interface............................................................................................................................... 514
Debugging FEFD.......................................................................................................................................................515
27 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)...................................................................................................... 517
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview.............................................................................................................................................517
Protocol Data Units.................................................................................................................................................. 517
Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................518
Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 518
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................ 520
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................ 520
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................524
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 524
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................524
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................525
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 525
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................525
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 526
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................526
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 526
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 526
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 528
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 528
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................529
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode................................................................................................................... 530
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 530
Debugging LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................531
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 532
28 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 537
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................ 537
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario..................................................................................................................................... 537
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................538
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................538
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 538
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Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................538
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 539
29 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).........................................................................................540
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................540
Anycast RP......................................................................................................................................................................541
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................542
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................542
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................542
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 546
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 547
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................547
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................547
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 548
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 548
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................548
Specifying Source-Active Messages........................................................................................................................... 551
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................552
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................552
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 553
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 553
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................554
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................554
Clearing Peer Statistics................................................................................................................................................ 555
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................555
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................556
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................557
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 558
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................558
MSDP Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 560
30 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................ 563
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................563
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 564
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 564
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................564
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................565
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 565
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................565
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 566
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................567
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................. 567
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 568
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................568
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 569
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 570
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Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................ 571
MSTP Sample Congurations.......................................................................................................................................571
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration....................................................................................... 572
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 575
31 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................577
Enabling IP Multicast..................................................................................................................................................... 577
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................577
Multicast Policies........................................................................................................................................................... 578
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................ 578
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 585
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 586
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 586
Supported Error Codes................................................................................................................................................. 587
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................588
32 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................594
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................ 594
Track Layer 2 Interfaces......................................................................................................................................... 595
Track Layer 3 Interfaces......................................................................................................................................... 595
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes...................................................................................................................................596
Set Tracking Delays..................................................................................................................................................597
VRRP Object Tracking.............................................................................................................................................597
Object Tracking Conguration......................................................................................................................................597
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface................................................................................................................................... 597
Tracking a Layer 3 Interface................................................................................................................................... 598
Track an IPv4/IPv6 Route......................................................................................................................................600
Displaying Tracked Objects...........................................................................................................................................603
33 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)................................................................................... 605
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................605
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 605
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 606
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................ 607
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 607
Designated and Backup Designated Routers.......................................................................................................609
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................609
Router Priority and Cost..........................................................................................................................................610
OSPF with Dell Networking OS.....................................................................................................................................611
Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................................... 612
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)...............................................................................................................613
Multi-Process OSPFv2 with VRF...........................................................................................................................613
RFC-2328 Compliant OSPF Flooding.................................................................................................................... 613
OSPF ACK Packing.................................................................................................................................................. 614
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers.......................................................................................................614
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