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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module
Conguration Guide
9.14.1.5
Notes, cautions, and warnings
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2019 - 05
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................33
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................33
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................33
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................33
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 34
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................35
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 35
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................35
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 35
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................36
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................36
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 36
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................37
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................ 37
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................... 37
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................ 37
Link Aggregation.............................................................................................................................................................. 38
Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................38
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 38
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................39
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 40
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................40
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................40
Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................41
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................50
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................50
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Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................50
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................50
Boot Process.....................................................................................................................................................................51
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................53
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................53
Accessing the Switch Remotely...............................................................................................................................53
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 53
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................54
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 54
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................55
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................55
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 56
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................57
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................58
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 59
View the Command History........................................................................................................................................... 60
Using HTTP for File Transfers.........................................................................................................................................61
Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS................................................................................................62
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................62
Deploying FN I/O Module............................................................................................................................................... 63
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................64
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................ 64
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................66
Verifying the Congurations.....................................................................................................................................66
5 Management............................................................................................................................................... 68
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................68
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................68
Customizing a Privilege Level...................................................................................................................................69
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username................................................................................................................71
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line........................................................................................................... 71
Conguring Logging......................................................................................................................................................... 71
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 72
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................73
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................73
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................75
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................75
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 75
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 76
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 76
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................76
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................76
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 77
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................78
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Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 79
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 79
Enabling Secure Management Mode............................................................................................................................ 80
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 80
File Transfer Services....................................................................................................................................................... 81
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services...................................................................................................81
Enabling the FTP Server............................................................................................................................................81
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................ 81
Conguring FTP Client Parameters.........................................................................................................................82
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 82
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................82
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................83
Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode...................................................................................................................84
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................84
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode.......................................................................................................................................85
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................85
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................86
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 86
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................86
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 86
Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................87
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................87
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................88
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................88
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 90
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.......................................................................................................... 90
Recovering from a Failed Start....................................................................................................................................... 91
6 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................92
The Port-Authentication Process.................................................................................................................................. 95
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................96
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................96
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 96
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................97
Enabling 802.1X.................................................................................................................................................................97
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions.....................................................................................................98
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 99
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port..............................................................................................................100
Re-Authenticating a Port............................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Timeouts..................................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication......................................................................... 102
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs...................................................................................................................103
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................104
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 104
7 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................106
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Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 106
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN groups............................................................................................................ 107
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................108
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 108
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................109
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 109
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes....................................................................................................................111
8 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................112
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................113
Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS........................................................................................................... 113
ACLs and VLANs.............................................................................................................................................................114
ACL Optimization............................................................................................................................................................ 114
Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac..............................................................................114
Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence..............................................................................114
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 115
IP Fragments ACL Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................116
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter............................................................................................................................ 117
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number..............................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 118
Established Flag...............................................................................................................................................................119
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 119
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................120
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................120
Counting ACL Hits...........................................................................................................................................................121
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 121
Congure Egress ACLs...................................................................................................................................................121
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).......................................................................................................... 122
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 122
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 123
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists........................................................................................................................ 123
Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................123
Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................. 124
Viewing Prex Lists........................................................................................................................................................125
Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution...........................................................................................................125
Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)......................................................................................................................126
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 126
Conguring a Remark...............................................................................................................................................127
Deleting a Remark.....................................................................................................................................................127
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 128
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.............................................................................................................................128
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................130
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 130
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Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 130
Conguration Task List for Route Maps...................................................................................................................... 130
Creating a Route Map....................................................................................................................................................130
Congure Route Map Filters......................................................................................................................................... 132
Conguring Match Routes............................................................................................................................................ 132
Conguring Set Conditions........................................................................................................................................... 133
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.......................................................................................................134
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging..................................................................................................................134
Continue Clause..............................................................................................................................................................135
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 135
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................136
Conguring ACL Logging...............................................................................................................................................136
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 137
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................137
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................138
9 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 140
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 140
BFD Packet Format.................................................................................................................................................. 141
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 142
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 143
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................145
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 145
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 145
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................146
Enabling BFD Globally.............................................................................................................................................. 146
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters.........................................................................................................147
Disabling and Re-Enabling BFD...............................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for Static Routes..................................................................................................................................148
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................148
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes.................................................................................................................148
Establishing Static Route Sessions on Specic Neighbors................................................................................. 149
Changing Static Route Session Parameters......................................................................................................... 150
Disabling BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................. 150
Congure BFD for OSPF...............................................................................................................................................150
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................151
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors.........................................................................................................151
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors for nondefault VRFs.................................................................... 152
Changing OSPF Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................153
Disabling BFD for OSPF.......................................................................................................................................... 153
Congure BFD for OSPFv3...........................................................................................................................................153
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................154
Establishing Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors....................................................................................................154
Establishing BFD Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors for nondefault VRFs....................................................... 154
Changing OSPFv3 Session Parameters................................................................................................................ 155
Disabling BFD for OSPFv3...................................................................................................................................... 156
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Congure BFD for BGP.................................................................................................................................................156
Prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................................156
Establishing Sessions with BGP Neighbors.......................................................................................................... 156
Disabling BFD for BGP..............................................................................................................................................161
Use BFD in a BGP Peer Group................................................................................................................................ 161
Displaying BFD for BGP Information.......................................................................................................................161
Congure BFD for VRRP...............................................................................................................................................165
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................165
Establishing Sessions with All VRRP Neighbors...................................................................................................166
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................166
Changing VRRP Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................167
Disabling BFD for VRRP...........................................................................................................................................167
Congure BFD for VLANs.............................................................................................................................................168
Related Conguration Task..................................................................................................................................... 168
Establish Sessions with VLAN Neighbors............................................................................................................. 169
Changing VLAN Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................169
Disabling BFD for VLANs.........................................................................................................................................170
Congure BFD for Port-Channels................................................................................................................................ 170
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................170
Establish Sessions on Port-Channels......................................................................................................................171
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters......................................................................................................... 171
Disabling BFD for Port-Channels............................................................................................................................172
Conguring Protocol Liveness...................................................................................................................................... 172
10 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)................................................................................................... 173
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 173
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................175
Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 175
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................176
Communities..............................................................................................................................................................177
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................177
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 177
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................179
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................179
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................180
Origin...........................................................................................................................................................................181
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................182
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 182
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................182
Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................183
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................183
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 183
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations............................................................................................. 184
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................184
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 184
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 186
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BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................ 187
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................187
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................188
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 188
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 189
Enabling MBGP Congurations............................................................................................................................. 220
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................222
Debugging BGP..............................................................................................................................................................222
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................223
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 224
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 224
11 Conguration Cloning............................................................................................................................... 233
Cloning Conguration Output Status..........................................................................................................................233
12 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................236
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................236
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................ 237
View CAM-ACL Settings...............................................................................................................................................237
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................238
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 238
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 239
13 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................240
Congure Control Plane Policing.................................................................................................................................. 241
Conguring CoPP for Protocols.............................................................................................................................242
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 243
Show Commands.....................................................................................................................................................244
14 Data Center Bridging (DCB).....................................................................................................................246
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................246
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 246
Priority-Based Flow Control..........................................................................................................................................247
Enhanced Transmission Selection................................................................................................................................248
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx).....................................................................................................250
Creating a DCB Map..................................................................................................................................................... 250
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 250
Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports...................................................................................... 251
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration.............................................................................................................. 251
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.........................................................................................................................252
Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode........................................................................................................ 252
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 254
How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented...............................................................................................256
Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 256
Conguring the PFC Buer in a Switch Stack.....................................................................................................257
Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection.......................................................................................................... 258
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How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented..................................................................................... 258
ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................259
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 259
DCBx Operation.............................................................................................................................................................260
DCBx Operation.......................................................................................................................................................260
DCBx Port Roles......................................................................................................................................................260
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................. 261
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................262
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................262
Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version.................................................................................................................... 263
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................263
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................264
DCBx Error Messages.............................................................................................................................................265
Debugging DCBx on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 265
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 265
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment.......................................................................................... 274
Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation...................................................................................................... 274
15 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 277
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 277
Assigning an IP Address using DHCP.......................................................................................................................... 277
Debugging DHCP Client Operation............................................................................................................................. 279
DHCP Client.................................................................................................................................................................... 281
How DHCP Client is Implemented................................................................................................................................281
DHCP Client on a Management Interface..................................................................................................................282
DHCP Client on a VLAN............................................................................................................................................... 282
DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................282
Option 82........................................................................................................................................................................284
DHCPv6 relay agent options........................................................................................................................................284
Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses................................................................................................285
Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information.......................................................................................................285
Conguring DHCP relay source interface...................................................................................................................286
Global DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ....................................................................................... 286
Interface level DHCP relay source IPv4 or IPv6 conguration ..........................................................................287
DHCP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................................288
DHCP Snooping for a Multi-Tenant Host..............................................................................................................288
DHCP Snooping in a VLT Setup.............................................................................................................................289
Enabling DHCP Snooping....................................................................................................................................... 289
Enabling IPv6 DHCP Snooping.............................................................................................................................. 289
Adding a Static Entry in the Binding Table............................................................................................................289
Adding a Static IPV6 DHCP Snooping Binding Table..........................................................................................290
Clearing the Binding Table...................................................................................................................................... 290
Clearing the DHCP IPv6 Binding Table................................................................................................................. 290
Displaying the Contents of the Binding Table...................................................................................................... 290
Displaying the Contents of the DHCPv6 Binding Table.......................................................................................291
Debugging the IPv6 DHCP..................................................................................................................................... 291
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IPv6 DHCP Snooping MAC-Address Verication................................................................................................292
16 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 293
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity..................................................................................................................................... 293
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 293
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 293
Managing ECMP Group Paths.....................................................................................................................................294
17 FC FPORT................................................................................................................................................295
FC FPORT...................................................................................................................................................................... 296
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode............................................................................................................296
Name Server...................................................................................................................................................................297
FCoE Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................298
Creating an FCoE Map..................................................................................................................................................298
Zoning............................................................................................................................................................................. 299
Creating Zone and Adding Members.......................................................................................................................... 300
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members................................................................................................................. 300
Creating Zonesets......................................................................................................................................................... 300
Activating a Zoneset...................................................................................................................................................... 301
Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................. 301
18 FCoE Transit.............................................................................................................................................304
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................304
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 304
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................304
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................306
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack................................................................................................................................... 307
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 308
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 308
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................308
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................308
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 309
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................309
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................309
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 309
FIP Snooping Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................... 310
FIP Snooping Restrictions.......................................................................................................................................310
Conguring FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................310
Displaying FIP Snooping Information............................................................................................................................ 311
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 316
19 FIPS Cryptography................................................................................................................................... 318
Preparing the System.................................................................................................................................................... 318
Enabling FIPS Mode.......................................................................................................................................................318
Generating Host-Keys....................................................................................................................................................319
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status...................................................................................................................................... 319
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Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 320
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 321
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................321
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 322
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................323
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 324
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 325
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................326
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................326
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................326
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................326
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................328
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................329
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................329
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................329
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................329
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 330
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................330
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................330
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................332
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 333
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................334
21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................335
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 335
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 335
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................336
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 336
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................ 337
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................337
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 338
22 FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................... 339
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................339
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 339
Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.........................................................................................339
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges...............................................................................................................................341
How FIP Snooping is Implemented..............................................................................................................................342
FIP Snooping on VLANs......................................................................................................................................... 342
FC-MAP Value......................................................................................................................................................... 343
Bridge-to-FCF Links................................................................................................................................................ 343
Impact on other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 343
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................343
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 344
Conguring FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................344
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Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................345
FIP Snooping Example.................................................................................................................................................. 350
Debugging FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................. 350
23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................352
IGMP Overview..............................................................................................................................................................352
IGMP Version 2..............................................................................................................................................................352
Joining a Multicast Group.......................................................................................................................................353
Leaving a Multicast Group......................................................................................................................................353
IGMP Version 3..............................................................................................................................................................353
Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources............................................................................................................ 354
Leaving and Staying in Groups...............................................................................................................................355
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................356
How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator.......................................................................................... 356
Disabling Multicast Flooding.........................................................................................................................................356
Displaying IGMP Information........................................................................................................................................356
24 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 359
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................359
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................359
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................360
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................360
Conguring the Default Interface................................................................................................................................ 362
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................363
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................363
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 363
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 364
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................364
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 364
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................365
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 365
Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface.......................................................................................................366
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................367
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................367
Conguring Management Interfaces on the Switch........................................................................................... 368
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 369
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 370
Null Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................................370
VLAN Membership........................................................................................................................................................ 370
Default VLAN ........................................................................................................................................................... 371
Port-Based VLANs................................................................................................................................................... 371
VLANs and Port Tagging......................................................................................................................................... 371
Conguring VLAN Membership............................................................................................................................. 372
Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................ 372
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN.................................................................................................................373
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN.......................................................................................................... 373
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VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................ 374
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 375
Port Channel Denition and Standards................................................................................................................. 375
Port Channel Benets............................................................................................................................................. 376
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................376
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels...........................................................................................376
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................. 377
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................377
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel..................................................................................................... 377
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 379
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 380
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 380
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel........................................................................................................... 381
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................381
Load Balancing through Port Channels....................................................................................................................... 381
Changing the Hash Algorithm.......................................................................................................................................381
Server Ports................................................................................................................................................................... 382
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong................................................................................................... 382
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 383
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................383
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................384
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 385
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 385
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 385
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 386
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 387
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................387
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports.............................................................................................................388
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface..............................................................................................................388
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................389
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................389
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 390
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 390
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames................................................................................................ 390
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................391
Congure MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................... 391
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................392
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................392
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................392
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................394
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 395
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.................................................................................................... 396
Dynamic Counters....................................................................................................................................................397
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing....................................................................................... 398
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 400
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Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................400
26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................402
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................402
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................403
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses....................................................................................................................403
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 405
Packet handling during MTU mismatch ...............................................................................................................406
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................406
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 406
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 407
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 407
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................407
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names......................................................................................................408
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains............................................................................. 408
Conguring DNS with Traceroute......................................................................................................................... 409
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 409
Conguration Tasks for ARP...................................................................................................................................410
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................. 411
ARP Learning via ARP Request.....................................................................................................................................411
Conguring ARP Retries................................................................................................................................................412
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................ 413
Conguration Tasks for ICMP.................................................................................................................................413
ICMP Redirects...............................................................................................................................................................413
UDP Helper..................................................................................................................................................................... 414
Congure UDP Helper............................................................................................................................................. 414
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 415
Enabling UDP Helper................................................................................................................................................415
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 415
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses........................................................................................................... 416
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses................................................................................................... 416
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.............................................................................................417
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses.......................................................................................417
Troubleshooting UDP Helper.........................................................................................................................................418
27 IPv6 Routing.............................................................................................................................................419
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................419
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................420
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 420
IPv6 Header Fields......................................................................................................................................................... 421
Version (4 bits)..........................................................................................................................................................421
Trac Class (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................. 421
Flow Label (20 bits)..................................................................................................................................................421
Payload Length (16 bits)..........................................................................................................................................421
Next Header (8 bits)............................................................................................................................................... 422
Hop Limit (8 bits).....................................................................................................................................................422
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Source Address (128 bits).......................................................................................................................................423
Destination Address (128 bits)............................................................................................................................... 423
Extension Header Fields................................................................................................................................................423
Hop-by-Hop Options Header................................................................................................................................. 423
Addressing...................................................................................................................................................................... 424
Link-local Addresses................................................................................................................................................ 424
Static and Dynamic Addressing..............................................................................................................................424
Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................... 425
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................426
Path MTU Discovery..................................................................................................................................................... 427
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 427
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................428
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.................................................................................................................... 428
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 428
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................429
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................429
IPv6 Multicast................................................................................................................................................................ 429
Conguration Task List for IPv6...................................................................................................................................430
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................430
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface............................................................................................................431
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route.................................................................................................................................431
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................432
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................432
Showing IPv6 Information...................................................................................................................................... 432
Showing an IPv6 Interface..................................................................................................................................... 433
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................433
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 434
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................435
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 435
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport..............................................................................................................435
28 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................436
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................436
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 436
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................................................................... 437
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.............................................................................................................438
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.......................................................................438
iSCSI Optimization: Operation......................................................................................................................................438
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................439
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information................................................................................................................. 440
29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 442
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................442
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................442
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 443
Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................443
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Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................444
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................444
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................444
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................444
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................445
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................445
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................446
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................460
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 460
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 460
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................460
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................462
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 463
30 Isolated Networks for Aggregators...........................................................................................................467
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings............................................................................................... 467
31 Link Aggregation...................................................................................................................................... 468
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................468
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator.....................................................................................................468
Uplink LAG................................................................................................................................................................469
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................ 469
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 469
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................469
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)................................................................................................................ 470
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................470
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................470
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................470
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 472
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................473
Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces...................................................................................................473
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 474
Conguring Auto LAG....................................................................................................................................................474
Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active.............................................476
Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode.............................................. 477
Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage........................................................................ 477
Enabling LACP link-fallback...........................................................................................................................................477
Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle.................................................................. 478
Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle.........................................................................................................478
Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration....................................................................................................479
Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports........................................................................................................... 481
32 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................483
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................483
Managing the MAC Address Table.............................................................................................................................. 483
Clearing the MAC Address Entries........................................................................................................................483
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Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 484
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................484
Enabling port security............................................................................................................................................. 484
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming.............................................................................................................485
MAC Address Station Move...................................................................................................................................485
MAC Move Optimization........................................................................................................................................ 486
33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)......................................................................................................487
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 487
Protocol Data Units........................................................................................................................................................487
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................489
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................489
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 489
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 489
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................490
Disabling and Undoing LLDP..................................................................................................................................490
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................490
Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................491
Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 491
IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs......................................................................................................................492
LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV...................................................................................................................................493
LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV......................................................................................................................... 494
Extended Power via MDI TLV................................................................................................................................495
LLDP Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 495
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................496
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 496
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..............................................................................................496
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 497
Viewing the LLDP Conguration..................................................................................................................................497
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents......................................................................................497
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 498
Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................499
Clearing LLDP Counters............................................................................................................................................... 499
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................500
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 500
34 Microsoft Network Load Balancing..........................................................................................................506
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................506
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................506
Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches.............................................................................................................. 507
Benets and Working of Microsoft Clustering...........................................................................................................507
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding .............................................................................................................................507
Conguring a Switch for NLB ..................................................................................................................................... 507
Multicast NLB Mode...............................................................................................................................................508
35 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).........................................................................................509
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Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................509
Anycast RP.......................................................................................................................................................................511
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 512
Congure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol..................................................................................................512
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................512
Enabling MSDP...............................................................................................................................................................516
Manage the Source-Active Cache............................................................................................................................... 517
Viewing the Source-Active Cache..........................................................................................................................517
Limiting the Source-Active Cache..........................................................................................................................517
Clearing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................518
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................518
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check...................................................................................... 518
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................522
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................523
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................523
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 524
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................524
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................525
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................525
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................526
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 526
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................527
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................528
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................529
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 529
MSDP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 531
36 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................ 534
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................534
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 535
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 535
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................535
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................535
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 536
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 536
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................537
Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges................................................................................................. 538
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 538
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 538
Enable BPDU Filtering Globally.................................................................................................................................... 540
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 540
Conguring an EdgePort............................................................................................................................................... 541
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 542
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................542
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................543
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Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 545
37 Multicast Features................................................................................................................................... 548
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................548
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................548
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast.........................................................................................................549
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................549
IPv4 Multicast Policies..................................................................................................................................................549
Limiting the Number of Multicast Routes............................................................................................................ 549
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group..............................................................................................................550
Rate Limiting IGMP Join Requests........................................................................................................................552
Preventing a PIM Router from Forming an Adjacency....................................................................................... 553
Preventing a Source from Registering with the RP............................................................................................ 553
Preventing a PIM Router from Processing a Join............................................................................................... 556
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 556
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................557
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 557
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................558
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................559
38 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)................................................................................... 565
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................565
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 565
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 566
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................ 567
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 567
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................569
Router Priority and Cost......................................................................................................................................... 570
OSPF with the Dell Networking OS.............................................................................................................................571
Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................................572
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only).............................................................................................................. 573
Processing SNMP and Sending SNMP Traps......................................................................................................573
OSPF ACK Packing..................................................................................................................................................573
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers.......................................................................................................573
Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 574
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4).........................................................................................574
Troubleshooting OSPFv2........................................................................................................................................585
OSPFv3 NSSA............................................................................................................................................................... 589
NSSA Options..........................................................................................................................................................589
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6).............................................................................................. 589
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing...............................................................................................................................590
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface........................................................................................................... 590
Assigning Area ID on an Interface...........................................................................................................................591
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally.........................................................................................591
Conguring Stub Areas...........................................................................................................................................592
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................592
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