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Dell Conguration Guide for the S6000–ON
System
9.14.0.0
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2018 - 07
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................37
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................37
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Related Documents..........................................................................................................................................................37
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 38
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................38
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................38
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................40
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 43
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................44
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................45
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 49
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 49
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................49
Accessing the System Remotely............................................................................................................................. 50
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................50
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................50
Conguring a Username and Password..................................................................................................................50
Conguring the Enable Password...................................................................................................................................51
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................52
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 52
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................53
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................54
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 55
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................55
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 56
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 56
Upgrading Dell EMC Networking OS.............................................................................................................................57
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 57
Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................58
4 Management............................................................................................................................................... 59
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Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 59
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................60
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 60
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode....................................................................... 60
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................60
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................60
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 62
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 62
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 62
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 63
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................64
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................64
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................66
Conguration Task List for System Log Management..........................................................................................66
Disabling System Logging...............................................................................................................................................66
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................66
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................66
Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................67
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................67
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 67
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................68
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................69
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 69
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................69
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 70
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................ 71
Changing System Logging Settings............................................................................................................................... 71
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 72
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level.................................................................................................................... 72
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 73
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 74
File Transfer Services.......................................................................................................................................................74
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................75
Enabling the FTP Server...........................................................................................................................................75
Conguring FTP Server Parameters....................................................................................................................... 75
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 76
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 76
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................76
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines............................................................................................. 77
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 78
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................79
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 79
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................79
Reloading the system...................................................................................................................................................... 80
Restoring the Factory Default Settings......................................................................................................................... 81
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Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................ 81
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables.................................................................................................. 81
Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot...............................................................................................................83
5 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................84
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................86
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................86
Conguring 802.1X........................................................................................................................................................... 87
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 87
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................87
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 88
Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................89
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................90
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................90
Conguring Critical VLAN .............................................................................................................................................. 91
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions...........................................................................................................92
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 92
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 93
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................94
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................95
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication.......................................................................... 96
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs...........................................................................................................................97
Conguring a Guest VLAN........................................................................................................................................97
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................... 97
6 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................ 99
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................100
CAM Usage................................................................................................................................................................101
Implementing ACLs on Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................ 101
Congure ACL Range Proles................................................................................................................................ 103
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................104
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................104
Conguring Match Routes......................................................................................................................................106
Conguring Set Conditions..................................................................................................................................... 107
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.................................................................................................108
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging........................................................................................................... 109
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................109
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 110
IP Fragments ACL Examples................................................................................................................................... 110
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples................................................................................................................................... 110
Congure a Standard IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................111
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter......................................................................................................................112
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................113
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number........................................................................................................113
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number................................................................................................. 116
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 116
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Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................117
Applying an IP ACL..........................................................................................................................................................117
Counting ACL Hits.................................................................................................................................................... 118
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 118
Congure Egress ACLs...................................................................................................................................................119
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).................................................................................................... 120
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 120
Implementation Information..................................................................................................................................... 121
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists...................................................................................................................121
ACL Remarks.................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Conguring a Remark.............................................................................................................................................. 124
Deleting a Remark.................................................................................................................................................... 125
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 126
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List.......................................................................................................................126
Route Maps..................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Implementation Information.....................................................................................................................................127
Flow-Based Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................128
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................128
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................129
Conguring IP Mirror Access Group............................................................................................................................ 130
Sample Conguration................................................................................................................................................131
Example of viewing IP mirror–access–group applied to an Interface................................................................132
7 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 133
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 133
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................134
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 135
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 136
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................138
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 138
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 138
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................139
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................140
Congure BFD for IPv6 Static Routes...................................................................................................................144
Congure BFD for OSPF.........................................................................................................................................146
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................150
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................153
Congure BFD for BGP...........................................................................................................................................155
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................163
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................165
8 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)................................................................................................................ 166
Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4).............................................................................................................166
Autonomous Systems (AS)...........................................................................................................................................166
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 168
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................170
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Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................170
MBGP for IPv4 MulticastBGP Address Family modelIPv4 and IPv6 address family........................................ 171
Sessions and Peers......................................................................................................................................................... 171
Establish a Session....................................................................................................................................................171
Implementing BGP global and address family............................................................................................................. 172
BGP global conguration default values................................................................................................................ 173
BGP Attributes for selecting Best Path.......................................................................................................................173
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 174
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................175
Local Preference....................................................................................................................................................... 176
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................176
Origin.......................................................................................................................................................................... 177
AS Path...................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Implement BGP with Dell EMC Networking OS.........................................................................................................179
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................179
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 179
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 180
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 180
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB).........................................................................................................181
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................181
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................182
Conguring a basic BGP network................................................................................................................................ 182
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 182
Conguring a BGP peer...........................................................................................................................................185
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 186
Conguring a BGP VRF address family..................................................................................................................187
Route-refresh and Soft-reconguration................................................................................................................189
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................192
Filtering BGP Routes................................................................................................................................................192
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................194
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 194
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................195
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over............................................................................................................................ 203
Conguring Passive Peering...................................................................................................................................204
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................ 205
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path...................................................................................... 206
Enabling Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................................207
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute.......................................................................................................................... 208
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................209
Redistributing Routes...............................................................................................................................................210
Enabling Additional Paths.........................................................................................................................................211
Conguring IP Community Lists..............................................................................................................................211
Conguring an IP Extended Community List........................................................................................................ 212
Filtering Routes with Community Lists.................................................................................................................. 213
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Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.............................................................................................................214
Changing MED Attributes....................................................................................................................................... 215
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute.................................................................................................. 216
Conguring the local System or a Dierent System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............. 216
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................217
Enabling Multipath....................................................................................................................................................217
Route Reectors.......................................................................................................................................................218
Conguring BGP Confederations........................................................................................................................... 219
Enabling Route Flap Dampening.............................................................................................................................219
Changing BGP Timers.............................................................................................................................................222
Setting the extended timer.....................................................................................................................................222
Enabling or disabling BGP neighbors.....................................................................................................................223
Route Map Continue............................................................................................................................................... 224
Enabling MBGP Congurations................................................................................................................................... 225
MBGP support for IPv6................................................................................................................................................225
Conguring IPv6 MBGP between peers.................................................................................................................... 225
Example-Conguring IPv4 and IPv6 neighbors......................................................................................................... 226
Congure IPv6 NH Automatically for IPv6 Prex Advertised over IPv4 Neighbor............................................... 228
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................230
Debugging BGP............................................................................................................................................................. 230
Storing Last and Bad PDUs.....................................................................................................................................231
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 232
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 233
9 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)........................................................................................................ 234
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................234
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................236
View CAM Proles.........................................................................................................................................................236
View CAM-ACL Settings...............................................................................................................................................237
View CAM Usage...........................................................................................................................................................238
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................239
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 239
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 240
Troubleshoot CAM Proling..........................................................................................................................................240
QoS CAM Region Limitation...................................................................................................................................240
Syslog Error When the Table is Full........................................................................................................................ 241
Syslog Warning Upon 90 Percent Utilization of CAM..........................................................................................241
Syslog Warning for Discrepancies Between Congured Extended Prexes.....................................................241
Unied Forwarding Table (UFT) Modes...................................................................................................................... 241
Conguring UFT Modes.......................................................................................................................................... 241
10 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................243
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 244
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 245
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues.......................................................................................................................247
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 248
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11 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 250
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 250
Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................................... 251
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................252
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................253
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.................................................................................................................. 254
Enabling Data Center Bridging.....................................................................................................................................254
DCB Maps and its Attributes................................................................................................................................. 255
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................256
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control....................................................................................................................256
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................257
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 259
PFC Conguration Notes....................................................................................................................................... 259
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................260
Applying a DCB Map on a Port....................................................................................................................................260
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map..........................................................................................................................261
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:.................................................................................................................. 261
Conguring PFC Asymmetric.......................................................................................................................................262
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................263
Pause and Resume of Trac..................................................................................................................................263
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets............................................................................................................ 263
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................264
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................264
SNMP Support for PFC and Buer Statistics Tracking........................................................................................... 265
Performing PFC Using DSCP Bits Instead of 802.1p Bits.........................................................................................265
PFC and ETS Conguration Examples........................................................................................................................266
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac.................................................................................................. 266
Operations on Untagged Packets................................................................................................................................266
Generation of PFC for a Priority for Untagged Packets........................................................................................... 267
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................267
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................267
Creating an ETS Priority Group..............................................................................................................................267
ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................269
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN................................................................................................ 269
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................270
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies..........................................................................................................271
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac................................................................................................... 272
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 272
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................ 272
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 272
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 273
DCB Conguration Exchange.................................................................................................................................274
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................274
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................275
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version...................................................................... 275
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DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................276
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................276
Conguring DCBx.................................................................................................................................................... 276
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 280
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................288
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method................................................................................................................... 289
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................290
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................292
12 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 293
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 293
Assign an IP Address using DHCP...............................................................................................................................295
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................296
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server............................................................................................................. 296
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation.................................................................................. 297
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..................................................................................................... 299
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................299
Debugging the DHCP Server.................................................................................................................................299
Using DHCP Clear Commands.............................................................................................................................. 300
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
DHCP Relay When DHCP Server and Client are in Dierent VRFs........................................................................ 303
Conguring Route Leaking between VRFs on DHCP Relay Agent................................................................... 303
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)................................................................................... 305
Congure Secure DHCP...............................................................................................................................................305
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................305
DHCP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................................306
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only.................................................................................................... 310
Dynamic ARP Inspection.......................................................................................................................................... 311
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection.................................................................................................................... 312
Source Address Validation............................................................................................................................................. 313
Enabling IP Source Address Validation...................................................................................................................313
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................. 314
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation........................................................................................................314
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets.................................................................................................... 315
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................315
13 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).................................................................................................................316
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity......................................................................................................................................316
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................. 316
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop............................................................................................................... 316
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Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed................................................................................................................... 317
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 317
Managing ECMP Group Paths................................................................................................................................318
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle...........................................................................................................................318
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold................................................................................................................. 318
Support for /128 IPv6 and /32 IPv4 Prexes in Layer 3 Host Table and LPM Table.......................................319
Support for ECMP in host table............................................................................................................................ 320
Support for moving /128 IPv6 Prexes and /32 IPv4 Prexes ........................................................................ 320
14 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 321
Fibre Channel over Ethernet.........................................................................................................................................321
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.............................................................................................321
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 323
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 325
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................325
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 325
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................326
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................326
Congure the FC-MAP Value.................................................................................................................................327
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 327
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link........................................................................................................... 327
Impact on Other Software Features......................................................................................................................327
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 328
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................328
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................329
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................334
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................336
Flex Hash Capability Overview.....................................................................................................................................336
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................336
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover................................................................................................... 337
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................337
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled.............................................................. 337
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism................................................................................338
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................339
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 339
LACP and IPv6 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 339
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 340
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................340
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................340
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 340
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................340
Changes to BGP Multipath..................................................................................................................................... 341
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP....................................................................................................341
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................ 341
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 342
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16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 343
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................343
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 344
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................344
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................345
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 346
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................347
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................347
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................347
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................348
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................349
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................350
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................350
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................350
Viewing the FRRP Information.............................................................................................................................. 350
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 351
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................351
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................351
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................352
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 353
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 354
17 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................355
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 355
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 356
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................356
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 357
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................357
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................357
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 358
18 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 359
IGMP Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................. 359
IGMP Protocol Overview..............................................................................................................................................359
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................359
IGMP Version 3.........................................................................................................................................................361
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 364
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................364
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces...............................................................................................................................365
Selecting an IGMP Version...........................................................................................................................................365
Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................366
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 366
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 366
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................367
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................368
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IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 368
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................368
Removing a Group-Port Association.....................................................................................................................369
Disabling Multicast Flooding...................................................................................................................................369
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 369
Conguring the Switch as Querier.........................................................................................................................370
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes................................................................................................... 370
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................370
Protocol Separation..................................................................................................................................................371
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection...................................................................... 372
Handling of Management Route Conguration....................................................................................................373
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac........................................................................................................................373
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................374
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).....................................................................................................375
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................375
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 376
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac ...........................................................................377
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications..................................................................................................... 377
Designating a Multicast Router Interface................................................................................................................... 378
19 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 379
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................379
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................379
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................380
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................380
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................382
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................383
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................383
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.................................................................................................... 383
40G to 1G Breakout Cable Adaptor....................................................................................................................... 383
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 384
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................385
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 385
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................385
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 386
Automatic recovery of an Err-disabled interface....................................................................................................... 387
Conguring an automatic recovery for an Err-disabled interface......................................................................387
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................388
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 388
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 388
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................389
Conguring Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................... 389
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port............................................................................... 390
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................. 391
Loopback Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................392
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 392
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Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 392
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................393
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................393
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................393
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 394
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................394
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................394
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................395
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................396
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................397
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................397
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 398
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel.....................................................................................................................399
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................399
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................399
Bulk Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 400
Interface Range....................................................................................................................................................... 400
Bulk Conguration Examples.................................................................................................................................. 401
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 402
Dene the Interface Range.................................................................................................................................... 403
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 403
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 403
Maintenance Using TDR.........................................................................................................................................404
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers...................................................................................................................................405
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................ 405
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 407
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................408
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 408
Example Scenarios.................................................................................................................................................. 409
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................ 410
Link Dampening.............................................................................................................................................................. 410
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................411
Conguration Example of Link Dampening............................................................................................................ 411
Enabling Link Dampening.........................................................................................................................................413
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 414
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control......................................................................................................... 415
Enabling Pause Frames............................................................................................................................................415
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface.....................................................................................................................416
Port-Pipes........................................................................................................................................................................417
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces....................................................................................................................417
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces............................................................................................................. 417
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 418
View Advanced Interface Information..........................................................................................................................419
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 420
Dynamic Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 421
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Clearing Interface Counters.................................................................................................................................... 421
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 422
20 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................426
IP Addresses................................................................................................................................................................... 427
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................427
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................427
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface....................................................................................................................... 427
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................428
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................429
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................430
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 430
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 430
Enabling Directed Broadcast......................................................................................................................................... 431
Resolution of Host Names.............................................................................................................................................431
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names.............................................................................................................431
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 432
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................432
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................433
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 433
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................433
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................434
Clearing ARP Cache...................................................................................................................................................... 434
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................434
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................435
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 435
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................436
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 436
Conguration Tasks for ICMP...................................................................................................................................... 436
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 436
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................437
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................437
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................437
Enabling UDP Helper..................................................................................................................................................... 437
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................437
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................438
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................438
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses..................................................................................................439
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................439
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................440
21 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................. 441
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................441
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................442
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 442
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................442
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Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support....................................................................443
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................444
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................446
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................ 447
Implementing IPv6 with Dell EMC Networking OS................................................................................................... 448
ICMPv6...........................................................................................................................................................................449
Path MTU discovery..................................................................................................................................................... 450
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery..............................................................................................................................................450
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets........................................................................................................... 451
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................ 451
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................452
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................452
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 453
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 453
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................453
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................454
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................455
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................455
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................456
Displaying IPv6 Information....................................................................................................................................456
Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information.............................................................................................................. 456
Showing IPv6 Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 457
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface.........................................................................................458
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................459
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 459
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 459
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface..........................................................................................................461
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard......................................................................................................................................462
22 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................463
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 463
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows...............................................................................................................................465
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 465
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows.......................................................................................................465
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays...........................................................................466
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................466
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer................................................................. 467
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................. 467
Default iSCSI Optimization Values...............................................................................................................................468
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites................................................................................................................................. 468
Conguring iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................................... 468
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................470
23 Intermediate System to Intermediate System...........................................................................................472
IS-IS Protocol Overview................................................................................................................................................472
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................472
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Multi-Topology IS-IS.......................................................................................................................................................473
Transition Mode........................................................................................................................................................473
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................474
Adjacencies............................................................................................................................................................... 474
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................474
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................474
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................474
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................475
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................476
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................483
Changing the IS-Type.............................................................................................................................................. 484
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................486
Redistributing IPv6 Routes..................................................................................................................................... 487
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................488
Setting the Overload Bit......................................................................................................................................... 488
Debugging IS-IS....................................................................................................................................................... 489
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................490
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 490
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 490
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................490
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................492
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 493
24 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).............................................................................................. 495
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 495
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 495
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 496
Conguring LACP Commands...............................................................................................................................496
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 497
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................497
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 497
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................498
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................498
Shared LAG State Tracking.......................................................................................................................................... 499
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking...............................................................................................................499
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................501
LACP Basic Conguration Example............................................................................................................................. 501
Congure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................501
25 Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................... 510
Manage the MAC Address Table..................................................................................................................................510
Clearing the MAC Address Table............................................................................................................................510
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries.........................................................................................................510
Conguring a Static MAC Address......................................................................................................................... 511
Displaying the MAC Address Table..........................................................................................................................511
MAC Learning Limit.........................................................................................................................................................511
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Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................. 512
mac learning-limit Dynamic..................................................................................................................................... 512
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky.................................................................................................................. 512
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................. 513
mac learning-limit no-station-move....................................................................................................................... 513
Learning Limit Violation Actions..............................................................................................................................513
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................. 514
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations............................................................................514
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System................................................................................................. 515
NIC Teaming....................................................................................................................................................................515
Congure Redundant Pairs........................................................................................................................................... 516
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs.........................................................................................518
Far-End Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................................519
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................520
Conguring FEFD.....................................................................................................................................................521
Enabling FEFD on an Interface............................................................................................................................... 521
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................522
26 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 524
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................524
Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 524
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................525
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 525
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview.................................................................................................................................527
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................ 527
Congure LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................. 531
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................531
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 531
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................532
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 532
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................532
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 533
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................533
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 533
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 533
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................535
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 535
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..............................................................................................535
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................535
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 536
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................536
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors.............................................................................. 536
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................538
Conguring LLDP Notication Interval....................................................................................................................... 539
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................539
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 540
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Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................540
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 542
27 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 547
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................ 547
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario..................................................................................................................................... 547
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................548
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................548
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 548
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................548
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 549
28 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).........................................................................................550
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................550
Anycast RP......................................................................................................................................................................551
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 552
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................552
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................552
Enable MSDP.................................................................................................................................................................556
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 557
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................557
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................557
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................558
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache....................................................................................................... 558
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check..................................................................................... 558
Specifying Source-Active Messages........................................................................................................................... 561
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer...................................................................................................562
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source.......................................................................................................562
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 563
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source................................................................................................. 563
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................564
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................564
Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................565
Debugging MSDP..........................................................................................................................................................565
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................566
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................567
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding........................................................................................................ 568
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages..............................................................................................568
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................570
33 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol......................................................................................................573
MLD Version 1.................................................................................................................................................................573
MLD Querier Router...................................................................................................................................................... 573
Joining a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................. 574
Leaving a Multicast Group............................................................................................................................................ 574
MLD version 2................................................................................................................................................................ 574
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MLD timers.....................................................................................................................................................................576
Reducing Host Response Burstiness.....................................................................................................................577
Clearing MLD groups.....................................................................................................................................................577
Debugging MLD............................................................................................................................................................. 577
Explicit Tracking..............................................................................................................................................................577
Reducing Leave Latency............................................................................................................................................... 577
Displaying MLD groups table........................................................................................................................................ 578
Displaying MLD Interfaces............................................................................................................................................ 578
30 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................579
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 579
Spanning Tree Variations.............................................................................................................................................. 580
Implementation Information................................................................................................................................... 580
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................580
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................581
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally....................................................................................................................... 581
Adding and Removing Interfaces..................................................................................................................................581
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 582
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................583
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................584
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 584
Modifying Global Parameters.......................................................................................................................................584
Modifying the Interface Parameters........................................................................................................................... 586
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 587
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change........................................................................................................587
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................588
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................588
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 592
31 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................594
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................594
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................594
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................595
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................595
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 602
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 603
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 603
Supported Error Codes.................................................................................................................................................604
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................605
33 Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol.......................................................................................................611
MLD Version 1..................................................................................................................................................................611
MLD Querier Router....................................................................................................................................................... 611
Joining a Multicast Group..............................................................................................................................................612
Leaving a Multicast Group.............................................................................................................................................612
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