Conguring EIS......................................................................................................................................................... 371
Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................. 371
Conguring Management Interfaces.........................................................................................................................371
Conguring Management Interfaces on the S-Series............................................................................................... 373
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 374
Loopback Interfaces....................................................................................................................................................... 374
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 375
Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................................................................375
Port Channel Denition and Standards.....................................................................................................................375
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................. 375
Port Channel Implementation................................................................................................................................... 375
10/100/1000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels....................................................................................................... 376
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.......................................................................................................376
Creating a Port Channel........................................................................................................................................... 377
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 377
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel......................................................................................................379
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel......................................................................................379
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Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...............................................................................................................380
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................... 381
Load Balancing Through Port Channels.................................................................................................................... 381
Load-Balancing Method............................................................................................................................................381
Changing the Hash Algorithm.................................................................................................................................. 382
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................383
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................383
Bulk Conguration Examples....................................................................................................................................383
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................... 384
Dene the Interface Range...................................................................................................................................... 385
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro........................................................................................................................385
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................... 385
Maintenance Using TDR.......................................................................................................................................... 386
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports...............................................................................................................................387
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..........................................................................................387
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................388
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................388
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................392
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................392
Enabling Link Dampening......................................................................................................................................... 392
Link Bundle Monitoring...................................................................................................................................................393
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control..............................................................................................................394
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................ 395
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface........................................................................................................................395
Port-Pipes......................................................................................................................................................................396
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 396
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................... 396
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