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Dell EMC Networking OS Conguration Guide for
the S5048F–ON System
9.14.0.0
Notes, cautions, and warnings
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2017 - 06
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................35
Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................35
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 35
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 36
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................36
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................37
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 38
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................41
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................42
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................42
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 43
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
Conguring alias command.............................................................................................................................................45
Viewing alias conguration....................................................................................................................................... 45
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
Micro USB-B Access.................................................................................................................................................49
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 50
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely................................................................................................................................... 50
Accessing the System Remotely............................................................................................................................. 50
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................50
Congure a Management Route...............................................................................................................................51
Conguring a Username and Password...................................................................................................................51
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................52
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................52
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 52
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................54
Save the Running-Conguration............................................................................................................................. 55
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 56
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................56
Managing the File System...............................................................................................................................................57
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 58
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS............................................................................................................................ 59
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 59
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Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................59
4 Management................................................................................................................................................ 61
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................ 61
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................62
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 62
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode........................................................................62
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................62
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................62
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 64
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 64
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 64
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 65
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................66
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................66
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................68
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 68
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 68
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................68
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................68
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 69
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity.................................................................................................................. 69
Conguring Login Activity Tracking.........................................................................................................................69
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................70
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions.....................................................................................................................................71
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................. 71
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit......................................................................................................................71
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 72
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................73
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................73
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 74
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................76
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 77
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 78
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................78
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................78
Enabling the FTP Server........................................................................................................................................... 78
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................79
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 79
Terminal Lines...................................................................................................................................................................80
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................80
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines..............................................................................................81
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 82
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................82
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 83
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................83
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Reloading the system...................................................................................................................................................... 84
Restoring the Factory Default Settings.........................................................................................................................84
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................85
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables................................................................................................. 85
5 802.1X......................................................................................................................................................... 86
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................88
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................88
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................89
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 89
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................89
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 90
Conguring dot1x Prole .................................................................................................................................................91
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................92
Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................92
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................93
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions...........................................................................................................94
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 94
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 95
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................96
Conguring Timeouts...................................................................................................................................................... 97
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication...........................................................................98
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.......................................................................................................................... 99
Conguring a Guest VLAN....................................................................................................................................... 99
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN...............................................................................................................99
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)................................... 101
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs..................................................................101
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups........................................................................................................... 102
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................102
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 102
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................103
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 104
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 106
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)....................................................................................................................... 108
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................109
CAM Usage................................................................................................................................................................110
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................. 111
Congure ACL Range Proles....................................................................................................................................... 112
Important Points to Remember..................................................................................................................................... 113
Conguration Task List for Route Maps.................................................................................................................114
Conguring Match Routes.......................................................................................................................................116
Conguring Set Conditions...................................................................................................................................... 117
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution..................................................................................................118
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................ 119
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Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................ 119
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 119
IP Fragments ACL Examples...................................................................................................................................120
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples...................................................................................................................................120
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................121
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter..................................................................................................................... 122
Congure an Extended IP ACL..................................................................................................................................... 123
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 123
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................126
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................127
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................128
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................128
Counting ACL Hits....................................................................................................................................................129
Congure Ingress ACLs................................................................................................................................................. 129
Congure Egress ACLs..................................................................................................................................................129
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 130
Conguring UDF ACL..................................................................................................................................................... 131
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 134
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 135
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists.................................................................................................................. 135
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 138
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................139
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................140
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 140
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)...................................................................................................141
How BFD Works.............................................................................................................................................................. 141
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................142
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 143
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 144
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................146
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 146
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 146
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................147
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................148
Congure BFD for OSPF..........................................................................................................................................151
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................156
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................159
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 162
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................168
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................. 171
Troubleshooting BFD.................................................................................................................................................171
9 Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4)..............................................................................................173
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 173
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................175
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Establish a Session................................................................................................................................................... 175
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................176
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path....................................................................................................................... 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
MBGP for IPv4 MulticastBGP Address Family modelIPv4 and IPv6 address family....................................... 183
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS.........................................................................................................183
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................183
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 184
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 184
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................184
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 185
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 186
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................ 187
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................187
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................188
Enabling BGP.................................................................................................................................................................. 189
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 190
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 192
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................194
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................196
Conguring Passive Peering....................................................................................................................................197
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................. 198
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 199
Enabling Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................200
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................... 201
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 201
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................203
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................204
Enabling Additional Paths....................................................................................................................................... 205
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................ 205
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 206
Filtering Routes with Community Lists................................................................................................................. 207
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute............................................................................................................208
Changing MED Attributes.......................................................................................................................................209
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..................................................................................................209
Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............. 210
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute.............................................................................................................................211
Enabling Multipath.................................................................................................................................................... 211
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Filtering BGP Routes.................................................................................................................................................211
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................213
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 213
Conguring BGP Route Reectors........................................................................................................................ 214
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................215
Conguring BGP Confederations...........................................................................................................................215
Enabling Route Flap Dampening.............................................................................................................................216
Changing BGP Timers..............................................................................................................................................218
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration................................................................................................................218
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................220
Route Map Continue................................................................................................................................................221
Enabling MBGP Congurations.................................................................................................................................... 221
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................222
Debugging BGP..............................................................................................................................................................222
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................223
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 224
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 225
Example-Conguring BGP peer groups......................................................................................................................225
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................232
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................232
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................ 234
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 234
View CAM Usage...........................................................................................................................................................235
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 236
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................236
CAM Prole Mismatches........................................................................................................................................ 236
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................236
Syslog Error When the Table is Full........................................................................................................................237
Syslog Warning Upon 90 Percent Utilization of CAM......................................................................................... 237
Syslog Warning for Discrepancies Between Congured Extended Prexes.................................................... 237
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes......................................................................................................................237
Conguring UFT Modes..........................................................................................................................................238
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 239
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 240
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................. 241
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 243
Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping.......................................................................................................................... 244
Conguring Protocol to CPU Queue Mapping.....................................................................................................244
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 245
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 247
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................247
Priority-Based Flow Control................................................................................................................................... 248
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................249
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Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................250
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow................................................................................................................... 251
Buer Organization.................................................................................................................................................. 251
Enabling Data Center Bridging.....................................................................................................................................254
DCB Maps and its Attributes................................................................................................................................. 255
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration............................................................................................................. 255
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................256
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................257
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 258
PFC Conguration Notes....................................................................................................................................... 258
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................259
Applying a DCB Map on a Port....................................................................................................................................260
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................260
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:.................................................................................................................. 261
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................262
Pause and Resume of Trac..................................................................................................................................262
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets............................................................................................................ 262
Shared headroom for lossless or PFC packets.......................................................................................................... 263
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 264
Conguring Shared Head Room Buer................................................................................................................ 265
Viewing Shared Head Room Usage.......................................................................................................................265
Monitoring Buer Statistics for Tracking Purposes............................................................................................ 266
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................266
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................266
SNMP Support for PFC and Buer Statistics Tracking............................................................................................267
Performing PFC Using DSCP Bits Instead of 802.1p Bits.........................................................................................268
PFC and ETS Conguration Examples........................................................................................................................268
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac.................................................................................................. 269
Operations on Untagged Packets................................................................................................................................269
Generation of PFC for a Priority for Untagged Packets...........................................................................................269
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................269
Creating an ETS Priority Group............................................................................................................................. 269
ETS Operation with DCBx.......................................................................................................................................271
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map...............................................................................................................................271
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 272
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac................................................................................................... 273
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 273
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................ 273
DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................................274
DCBx Port Roles.......................................................................................................................................................274
DCB Conguration Exchange.................................................................................................................................275
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................276
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................276
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version.......................................................................276
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................277
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DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions..................................................................................................................... 277
Conguring DCBx.................................................................................................................................................... 278
Verifying the DCB Conguration.................................................................................................................................. 281
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................289
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 290
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................290
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................292
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP).........................................................................................293
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 293
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................295
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 295
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server............................................................................................................. 296
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation..................................................................................296
Specifying a Default Gateway................................................................................................................................ 298
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution..................................................................................................... 298
Using DNS for Address Resolution........................................................................................................................298
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution..................................................................................................... 298
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................299
Debugging the DHCP Server.................................................................................................................................299
Using DHCP Clear Commands.............................................................................................................................. 299
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client...............................................................................................................300
Conguring the DHCP Client System...................................................................................................................300
DHCP Client on a Management Interface............................................................................................................302
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features.......................................................................................................302
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................303
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................303
DHCP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................................304
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................308
Dynamic ARP Inspection........................................................................................................................................ 309
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection....................................................................................................................310
Source Address Validation..............................................................................................................................................311
Enabling IP Source Address Validation....................................................................................................................311
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................. 312
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation........................................................................................................312
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets.................................................................................................... 313
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................313
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).................................................................................................................314
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity......................................................................................................................................314
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................. 314
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop............................................................................................................... 314
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed................................................................................................................... 315
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 315
Managing ECMP Group Paths................................................................................................................................316
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle...........................................................................................................................316
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Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold................................................................................................................. 316
Support for /128 IPv6 and /32 IPv4 Prexes in Layer 3 Host Table and LPM Table.......................................317
Support for ECMP in host table............................................................................................................................. 318
Support for moving /128 IPv6 Prexes and /32 IPv4 Prexes .........................................................................318
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 319
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................319
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................319
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges...............................................................................................................................321
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 323
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................323
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................323
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................325
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................325
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 325
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 325
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................326
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 326
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 326
Conguring FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................... 327
Displaying FIP Snooping Information........................................................................................................................... 327
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................332
16 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................334
Flex Hash Capability Overview.....................................................................................................................................334
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................334
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview............................................................................................... 335
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 336
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)....................................................................................................337
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 337
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 338
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................338
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................339
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 340
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 341
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 341
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 341
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 342
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................343
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................344
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 344
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................344
Viewing the FRRP Information.............................................................................................................................. 345
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 345
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................345
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Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................345
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................347
Example Scenario.....................................................................................................................................................347
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 348
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................350
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 350
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................. 351
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................351
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 352
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................352
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 352
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 353
19 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 354
IGMP Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................. 354
IGMP Protocol Overview..............................................................................................................................................354
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................354
IGMP Version 3........................................................................................................................................................356
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 359
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................359
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces...............................................................................................................................360
Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................360
Viewing IGMP Groups....................................................................................................................................................361
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................. 361
Adjusting Query and Response Timers..................................................................................................................361
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................362
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................362
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information.......................................................................................................362
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................363
Removing a Group-Port Association..................................................................................................................... 363
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................364
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 364
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 364
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................365
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................365
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................366
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 367
Handling of Management Route Conguration................................................................................................... 367
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 368
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................369
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 369
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................369
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 370
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ............................................................................371
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications..................................................................................................... 372
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Designating a Multicast Router Interface................................................................................................................... 373
20 Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................374
Basic Interface Conguration....................................................................................................................................... 374
Advanced Interface Conguration............................................................................................................................... 374
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................375
View Basic Interface Information................................................................................................................................. 375
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State................................................................................................... 377
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................378
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................378
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 378
Overview of Layer Modes.......................................................................................................................................379
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................379
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode...................................................................................................................379
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................380
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 380
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)...................................................................................................................................381
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 381
Conguring EIS.........................................................................................................................................................381
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................382
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................382
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port................................................................................382
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................383
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 384
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 384
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................384
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................385
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................385
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................385
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 386
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................386
Creating a Port Channel......................................................................................................................................... 386
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................387
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................388
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 389
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN............................................................................................. 389
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 390
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel......................................................................................................................391
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 391
Load-Balancing Method.......................................................................................................................................... 391
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................392
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 393
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................393
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................393
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 395
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 395
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Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 395
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 395
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................396
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers................................................................................................................................... 397
Splitting 100G Ports...................................................................................................................................................... 398
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................398
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 399
Conguration Example of Link Dampening.......................................................................................................... 399
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................401
Link Bundle Monitoring................................................................................................................................................. 402
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 403
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 403
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................404
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................405
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................405
CR4 Auto-Negotiation.................................................................................................................................................. 405
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.................................................................................................................. 406
Speed Setting on 25G Interfaces................................................................................................................................ 407
FEC Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 408
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................410
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size................................................................................................................ 411
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 412
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 413
Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 414
Enhanced Validation of Interface Ranges....................................................................................................................414
Compressing Conguration Files..................................................................................................................................414
OUI on 25G and 50G Interfaces...................................................................................................................................417
Conguring OUI on 25G and 50G Interfaces........................................................................................................417
21 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................. 418
IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................419
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 419
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 419
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface........................................................................................................................419
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................420
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface...........................................................................................421
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................422
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 422
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 422
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 423
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................423
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................423
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains....................................................................................424
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................424
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 425
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 425
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Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................425
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................426
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................426
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................427
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................ 427
ARP Learning via ARP Request....................................................................................................................................427
Conguring ARP Retries............................................................................................................................................... 428
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 428
Conguration Tasks for ICMP......................................................................................................................................429
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 429
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................429
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................429
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 429
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................429
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................ 430
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 431
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses..................................................................................................................431
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................432
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................432
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................433
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................ 433
22 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................434
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 434
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................434
Path MTU discovery................................................................................................................................................434
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 435
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................436
Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support................................................................... 436
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................437
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................438
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 439
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................... 440
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................440
Path MTU discovery...................................................................................................................................................... 441
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery...............................................................................................................................................441
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................442
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 442
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................443
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................443
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 444
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 444
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................444
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................445
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................446
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................446
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SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................447
Displaying IPv6 Information.................................................................................................................................... 447
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information...............................................................................................................447
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................448
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 449
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................450
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 450
23 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................453
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 453
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................455
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 455
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................455
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................456
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................456
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................457
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................. 457
Default iSCSI Optimization Values...............................................................................................................................458
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 458
Conguring iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 458
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information................................................................................................................. 460
24 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 462
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................462
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................462
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 463
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 463
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................464
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................464
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................464
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................464
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................464
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................465
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................466
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................473
Changing the IS-Type...............................................................................................................................................474
Redistributing IPv4 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 476
Redistributing IPv6 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 477
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................478
Setting the Overload Bit......................................................................................................................................... 478
Debugging IS-IS....................................................................................................................................................... 479
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................480
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 480
Maximum Values in the Routing Table................................................................................................................... 481
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only.................................................................................................481
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................482
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Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 483
25 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 486
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 486
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 486
LACP Modes.............................................................................................................................................................487
Conguring LACP Commands............................................................................................................................... 487
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................488
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................488
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 488
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................489
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................489
Shared LAG State Tracking.......................................................................................................................................... 490
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking...............................................................................................................490
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 492
LACP Basic Conguration Example.............................................................................................................................492
Congure a LAG on ALPHA................................................................................................................................... 492
26 Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................... 501
Manage the MAC Address Table..................................................................................................................................501
Clearing the MAC Address Table............................................................................................................................501
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries.........................................................................................................501
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................502
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................502
MAC Learning Limit.......................................................................................................................................................502
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 503
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 503
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 503
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 504
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 504
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................504
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................505
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations...........................................................................505
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System...................................................................................................... 506
NIC Teaming...................................................................................................................................................................506
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................507
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................509
Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................510
FEFD State Changes................................................................................................................................................ 511
Conguring FEFD..................................................................................................................................................... 512
Enabling FEFD on an Interface............................................................................................................................... 512
Debugging FEFD.......................................................................................................................................................513
27 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)...................................................................................................... 515
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................ 515
Protocol Data Units.................................................................................................................................................. 515
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Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................516
Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 516
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................. 518
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs.........................................................................................................................518
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................522
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................522
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 522
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................522
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 522
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................523
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 523
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................523
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 524
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 524
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 525
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................526
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors...............................................................................526
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 527
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................527
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 528
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................529
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 530
28 Microsoft Network Load Balancing..........................................................................................................535
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................535
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................535
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................536
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................536
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 536
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................536
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.....................................................................................................................537
29 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 538
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................538
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................539
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 540
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................540
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................540
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 544
Manage the Source-Active Cache..............................................................................................................................545
Viewing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 545
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................545
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................546
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 546
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................546
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................549
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Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................550
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................550
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source...................................................................................................551
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source.................................................................................................. 551
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................552
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................552
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................553
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................553
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................554
Conguring Anycast RP............................................................................................................................................... 555
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 556
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................556
MSDP Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 558
30 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol......................................................................................................561
MLD Version 1.................................................................................................................................................................561
MLD Querier Router.......................................................................................................................................................561
Joining a Multicast Group.............................................................................................................................................562
Leaving a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................562
MLD version 2................................................................................................................................................................562
MLD timers.....................................................................................................................................................................564
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.................................................................................................................... 565
Clearing MLD groups.................................................................................................................................................... 565
Debugging MLD.............................................................................................................................................................565
Explicit Tracking.............................................................................................................................................................565
Reducing Leave Latency...............................................................................................................................................565
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................566
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................566
MLD Snooping............................................................................................................................................................... 566
Enable MLD Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 566
Disable MLD Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 567
Congure the switch as a querier..........................................................................................................................567
Specify port as connected to multicast router.................................................................................................... 567
Enable Snooping Explicit Tracking.........................................................................................................................568
Display the MLD Snooping Table........................................................................................................................... 568
31 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................569
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................569
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................570
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................570
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................570
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................571
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally....................................................................................................................... 571
Adding and Removing Interfaces..................................................................................................................................571
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 572
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................573
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Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges............................................................................................................................. 574
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................574
Modifying Global Parameters........................................................................................................................................574
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................576
Conguring an EdgePort...............................................................................................................................................577
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................577
MSTP Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................... 578
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration....................................................................................... 578
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 582
32 Multicast Features...................................................................................................................................584
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................584
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................584
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................585
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................585
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 592
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 593
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 593
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................594
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................595
33 Object Tracking........................................................................................................................................ 601
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................. 601
Track Layer 2 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................602
Track Layer 3 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................602
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes................................................................................................................................... 603
Set Tracking Delays................................................................................................................................................. 604
VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................ 604
Object Tracking Conguration..................................................................................................................................... 604
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface................................................................................................................................... 604
Tracking a Layer 3 Interface...................................................................................................................................605
Track an IPv4/IPv6 Route...................................................................................................................................... 607
Displaying Tracked Objects........................................................................................................................................... 610
34 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3).................................................................................... 612
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................612
Autonomous System (AS) Areas............................................................................................................................ 612
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................. 613
Networks and Neighbors.........................................................................................................................................614
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................. 614
Designated and Backup Designated Routers........................................................................................................616
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs).........................................................................................................................616
Router Priority and Cost..........................................................................................................................................617
OSPF with Dell EMC Networking OS..........................................................................................................................618
Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................................... 619
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