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Dell Conguration Guide for the S4820T System
9.10(0.0)
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2016 - 04
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................32
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................32
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................32
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 32
2 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 33
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................33
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................33
Navigating CLI Modes...............................................................................................................................................35
The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................37
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 38
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................38
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................39
Command History............................................................................................................................................................40
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................40
Example of the grep Keyword.................................................................................................................................. 40
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode............................................................................................................................41
3 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................42
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................ 43
Serial Console............................................................................................................................................................. 43
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................44
Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................44
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................44
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 45
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 45
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................45
Accessing the System Remotely..............................................................................................................................45
Congure the Management Port IP Address.........................................................................................................45
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................46
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 46
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................46
Conguration File Management..................................................................................................................................... 47
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 47
Mounting an NFS File System..................................................................................................................................48
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................49
Congure the Overload Bit for a Startup Scenario............................................................................................... 50
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................50
Managing the File System............................................................................................................................................... 51
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command Option.......................................................................... 51
View Command History.................................................................................................................................................. 52
Upgrading Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................... 52
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 52
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Verify Software Images Before Installation...................................................................................................................53
4 Management............................................................................................................................................... 55
Conguring Privilege Levels........................................................................................................................................... 55
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................55
Removing a Command from EXEC Mode.............................................................................................................. 56
Moving a Command from EXEC Privilege Mode to EXEC Mode....................................................................... 56
Allowing Access to CONFIGURATION Mode Commands....................................................................................56
Allowing Access to Dierent Modes........................................................................................................................56
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 58
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 58
Conguring Logging........................................................................................................................................................ 58
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................ 59
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................60
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration...................................................................................61
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server............................................................................................. 61
Log Messages in the Internal Buer..............................................................................................................................63
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 63
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 63
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................ 63
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................63
Track Login Activity......................................................................................................................................................... 64
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................64
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 64
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................65
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................66
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 66
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................66
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 67
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................67
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................68
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level....................................................................................................................69
Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 70
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 70
File Transfer Services....................................................................................................................................................... 71
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services...................................................................................................71
Enabling the FTP Server............................................................................................................................................71
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................72
Conguring FTP Client Parameters......................................................................................................................... 72
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 73
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................ 73
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines............................................................................................. 74
Setting Timeout for EXEC Privilege Mode................................................................................................................... 75
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................75
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 76
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................76
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 76
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Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.....................................................................................................77
Recovering from a Failed Start.......................................................................................................................................78
Restoring the Factory Default Settings.........................................................................................................................78
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................79
Restoring Factory Default Environment Variables................................................................................................. 79
5 802.1X.......................................................................................................................................................... 81
Port-Authentication Process..........................................................................................................................................83
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................84
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................84
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 84
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................84
Enabling 802.1X................................................................................................................................................................ 85
Conguring MAC addresses for a do1x Prole.............................................................................................................86
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions........................................................................................................... 87
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication......................................................................................87
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port............................................................................................................... 88
Re-Authenticating a Port................................................................................................................................................89
Conguring Timeouts......................................................................................................................................................90
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication........................................................................... 91
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs.......................................................................................................................... 92
Conguring a Guest VLAN....................................................................................................................................... 92
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN...............................................................................................................92
Conguring dot1x Prole ................................................................................................................................................93
Conguring the Static MAB and MAB Prole .............................................................................................................94
Conguring Critical VLAN ..............................................................................................................................................94
6 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................96
Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs...................................................................96
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN Groups............................................................................................................. 97
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters................................................ 97
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups................................................................................................................................ 97
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters........................................................................................................ 98
Viewing CAM Usage........................................................................................................................................................99
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes.................................................................................................................. 100
7 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................101
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs).....................................................................................................................................102
CAM Usage...............................................................................................................................................................102
Implementing ACLs on Dell Networking OS..........................................................................................................103
IP Fragment Handling.................................................................................................................................................... 105
IP Fragments ACL Examples...................................................................................................................................105
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples.................................................................................................................................. 105
Congure a Standard IP ACL........................................................................................................................................106
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter..................................................................................................................... 107
Congure an Extended IP ACL.....................................................................................................................................108
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number.......................................................................................................108
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Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number................................................................................................ 109
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 110
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface...................................................................................................................................110
Applying an IP ACL.......................................................................................................................................................... 111
Counting ACL Hits..................................................................................................................................................... 111
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 112
Congure Egress ACLs...................................................................................................................................................112
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane)..................................................................................................... 113
IP Prex Lists................................................................................................................................................................... 113
Implementation Information..................................................................................................................................... 114
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists...................................................................................................................114
ACL Resequencing.......................................................................................................................................................... 117
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List........................................................................................................................118
Route Maps......................................................................................................................................................................119
Implementation Information..................................................................................................................................... 119
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................................................................119
Conguration Task List for Route Maps................................................................................................................ 120
Conguring Match Routes...................................................................................................................................... 122
Conguring Set Conditions..................................................................................................................................... 123
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.................................................................................................124
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging............................................................................................................124
Continue Clause........................................................................................................................................................125
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 125
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging................................................................................................................126
Conguring ACL Logging.........................................................................................................................................126
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs.................................................................................................................. 127
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................127
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring............................................................................................................................128
8 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 130
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 130
BFD Packet Format...................................................................................................................................................131
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................ 132
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 133
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................135
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 135
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 135
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................136
Congure BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................139
Congure BFD for OSPF..........................................................................................................................................141
Congure BFD for OSPFv3.....................................................................................................................................143
Congure BFD for IS-IS...........................................................................................................................................145
Congure BFD for BGP........................................................................................................................................... 147
Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................154
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................156
Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................156
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9 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).................................................................................................... 158
Autonomous Systems (AS)...........................................................................................................................................158
Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 160
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................160
Route Reectors............................................................................................................................................................. 161
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................162
Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................162
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................164
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................164
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................165
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................166
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................166
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 167
Multiprotocol BGP.......................................................................................................................................................... 167
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................168
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................168
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 168
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 169
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 169
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 169
AS Number Migration............................................................................................................................................... 171
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................172
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 172
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................173
BGP Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................173
Enabling BGP.............................................................................................................................................................174
Conguring AS4 Number Representations............................................................................................................177
Conguring Peer Groups......................................................................................................................................... 178
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over..............................................................................................................................181
Conguring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 182
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration................................................................................. 183
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 184
Enabling Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................... 185
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................... 186
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 186
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................. 187
Redistributing Routes...............................................................................................................................................189
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................ 189
Conguring IP Community Lists.............................................................................................................................190
Conguring an IP Extended Community List.........................................................................................................191
Filtering Routes with Community Lists.................................................................................................................. 192
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.............................................................................................................192
Changing MED Attributes....................................................................................................................................... 194
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute.................................................................................................. 194
Changing the NEXT_HOP Attribute......................................................................................................................195
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................195
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Enabling Multipath....................................................................................................................................................196
Filtering BGP Routes................................................................................................................................................196
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................197
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 198
Conguring BGP Route Reectors........................................................................................................................ 198
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................199
Conguring BGP Confederations........................................................................................................................... 199
Enabling Route Flap Dampening............................................................................................................................ 200
Changing BGP Timers.............................................................................................................................................202
Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconguration.....................................................................................................203
Route Map Continue............................................................................................................................................... 204
Enabling MBGP Congurations................................................................................................................................... 204
BGP Regular Expression Optimization........................................................................................................................205
Debugging BGP............................................................................................................................................................. 205
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................206
Capturing PDUs....................................................................................................................................................... 207
PDU Counters.......................................................................................................................................................... 208
Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................................. 208
10 Content Addressable Memory (CAM)....................................................................................................... 214
CAM Allocation............................................................................................................................................................... 214
Test CAM Usage.............................................................................................................................................................216
View CAM Proles..........................................................................................................................................................216
View CAM-ACL Settings............................................................................................................................................... 217
View CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................218
CAM Optimization.......................................................................................................................................................... 219
Troubleshoot CAM Proling.......................................................................................................................................... 219
CAM Prole Mismatches.........................................................................................................................................219
QoS CAM Region Limitation................................................................................................................................... 219
11 Control Plane Policing (CoPP).................................................................................................................. 220
Congure Control Plane Policing.................................................................................................................................. 221
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 222
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 224
CoPP for OSPFv3 Packets.....................................................................................................................................225
Conguring CoPP for OSPFv3...............................................................................................................................227
Displaying CoPP Conguration ............................................................................................................................. 228
12 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 230
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................... 230
Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................................... 231
Enhanced Transmission Selection..........................................................................................................................232
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)...............................................................................................233
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow...................................................................................................................234
Enabling Data Center Bridging..................................................................................................................................... 234
DCB Maps and its Attributes..................................................................................................................................235
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................236
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Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 236
Conguring Lossless Queues..................................................................................................................................237
Conguring PFC in a DCB Map................................................................................................................................... 238
PFC Conguration Notes........................................................................................................................................238
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.......................................................................................................................239
Applying a DCB Map on a Port.................................................................................................................................... 239
Conguring PFC without a DCB Map.........................................................................................................................240
Conguring Lossless QueuesExample:..................................................................................................................240
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buer Method.................................................................................... 241
Pause and Resume of Trac...................................................................................................................................241
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets.............................................................................................................242
Behavior of Tagged Packets.........................................................................................................................................242
Conguration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities................................................................................................243
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................243
Congure Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................................244
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions........................................................................................................................244
Creating an ETS Priority Group..............................................................................................................................244
ETS Operation with DCBx...................................................................................................................................... 245
Conguring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN.................................................................................................246
Conguring ETS in a DCB Map..............................................................................................................................246
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 248
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Trac...................................................................................................248
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................................... 248
Congure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................................................248
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 249
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 249
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 250
Conguration Source Election................................................................................................................................ 251
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................................................ 251
Auto-Detection and Manual Conguration of the DCBx Version....................................................................... 251
DCBx Example..........................................................................................................................................................252
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions.....................................................................................................................252
Conguring DCBx....................................................................................................................................................253
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 256
Sample DCB Conguration...........................................................................................................................................264
PFC and ETS Conguration Command Examples...............................................................................................266
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment..........................................................................................266
Conguring the Dynamic Buer Method....................................................................................................................267
13 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 269
DHCP Packet Format and Options............................................................................................................................. 269
Assign an IP Address using DHCP................................................................................................................................271
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................272
Congure the System to be a DHCP Server..............................................................................................................272
Conguring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation.................................................................................. 273
Specifying a Default Gateway.................................................................................................................................274
Congure a Method of Hostname Resolution......................................................................................................274
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Using DNS for Address Resolution........................................................................................................................ 274
Using NetBIOS WINS for Address Resolution......................................................................................................275
Creating Manual Binding Entries............................................................................................................................275
Debugging the DHCP Server................................................................................................................................. 275
Using DHCP Clear Commands...............................................................................................................................276
Congure the System to be a Relay Agent.................................................................................................................276
Congure the System to be a DHCP Client................................................................................................................277
DHCP Client Operation with Other Features....................................................................................................... 278
DHCP Client on a Management Interface............................................................................................................ 279
Congure the System for User Port Stacking (Option 230)....................................................................................279
Congure Secure DHCP............................................................................................................................................... 280
Option 82..................................................................................................................................................................280
DHCP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................281
Conguring the DHCP secondary-subnet............................................................................................................284
Drop DHCP Packets on Snooped VLANs Only....................................................................................................284
Dynamic ARP Inspection........................................................................................................................................ 285
Conguring Dynamic ARP Inspection................................................................................................................... 286
Source Address Validation.............................................................................................................................................287
Enabling IP Source Address Validation.................................................................................................................. 287
DHCP MAC Source Address Validation................................................................................................................ 288
Enabling IP+MAC Source Address Validation.......................................................................................................288
Viewing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets....................................................................................................289
Clearing the Number of SAV Dropped Packets...................................................................................................289
14 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 290
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity.....................................................................................................................................290
Conguring the Hash Algorithm............................................................................................................................ 290
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop.............................................................................................................. 290
Conguring the Hash Algorithm Seed................................................................................................................... 291
Link Bundle Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................. 291
Managing ECMP Group Paths...............................................................................................................................292
Creating an ECMP Group Bundle.......................................................................................................................... 292
Modifying the ECMP Group Threshold.................................................................................................................292
RTAG7.............................................................................................................................................................................293
Flow-based Hashing for ECMP................................................................................................................................... 294
15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................ 297
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 297
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................ 297
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................299
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................300
Using FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................................301
FIP Snooping Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................... 301
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 301
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................302
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................302
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 303
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Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................303
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................303
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 303
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 304
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................304
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................305
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 310
16 FIPS Cryptography................................................................................................................................... 312
Conguration Tasks........................................................................................................................................................312
Preparing the System.................................................................................................................................................... 312
Enabling FIPS Mode.......................................................................................................................................................313
Generating Host-Keys....................................................................................................................................................313
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status...................................................................................................................................... 313
Disabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 314
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)....................................................................................................315
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................315
Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................316
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 316
Important FRRP Points............................................................................................................................................317
Important FRRP Concepts......................................................................................................................................318
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 319
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 319
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 319
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................319
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................320
Setting the FRRP Timers.........................................................................................................................................321
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 322
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................322
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................322
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 322
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................322
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................323
18 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................325
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 325
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 326
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................326
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 326
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................ 327
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................327
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 328
RPM Redundancy..........................................................................................................................................................328
19 High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................................... 329
Component Redundancy.............................................................................................................................................. 329
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RPM Redundancy....................................................................................................................................................329
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover........................................................................................................... 331
Support for RPM Redundancy by Dell Networking OS Version........................................................................ 332
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units.............................................................................. 332
Conguring RPM Redundancy...............................................................................................................................332
Online Insertion and Removal.......................................................................................................................................333
RPM Online Insertion and Removal.......................................................................................................................334
Linecard Online Insertion and Removal................................................................................................................. 334
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 335
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................336
Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 336
Software Component Health Monitoring............................................................................................................. 336
System Health Monitoring......................................................................................................................................336
Failure and Event Logging.......................................................................................................................................336
Hot-Lock Behavior.........................................................................................................................................................337
Process Restartability....................................................................................................................................................337
Enabling Process Restartability..............................................................................................................................338
20 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).........................................................................................339
IGMP Implementation Information.............................................................................................................................. 339
IGMP Protocol Overview..............................................................................................................................................339
IGMP Version 2........................................................................................................................................................ 339
IGMP Version 3.........................................................................................................................................................341
Congure IGMP............................................................................................................................................................. 343
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................344
Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces............................................................................................................................... 344
Selecting an IGMP Version........................................................................................................................................... 344
Viewing IGMP Groups...................................................................................................................................................345
Adjusting Timers............................................................................................................................................................ 345
Adjusting Query and Response Timers................................................................................................................. 345
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave.................................................................................................................................346
IGMP Snooping..............................................................................................................................................................346
IGMP Snooping Implementation Information....................................................................................................... 346
Conguring IGMP Snooping...................................................................................................................................346
Removing a Group-Port Association..................................................................................................................... 347
Disabling Multicast Flooding................................................................................................................................... 347
Specifying a Port as Connected to a Multicast Router...................................................................................... 348
Conguring the Switch as Querier........................................................................................................................ 348
Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes...................................................................................................349
Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications........................................................................349
Protocol Separation.................................................................................................................................................349
Enabling and Disabling Management Egress Interface Selection......................................................................350
Handling of Management Route Conguration.................................................................................................... 351
Handling of Switch-Initiated Trac....................................................................................................................... 352
Handling of Switch-Destined Trac......................................................................................................................352
Handling of Transit Trac (Trac Separation).................................................................................................... 353
Mapping of Management Applications and Trac Type.....................................................................................353
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Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Initiated Trac ............................................................................ 354
Behavior of Various Applications for Switch-Destined Trac .......................................................................... 355
Interworking of EIS With Various Applications.....................................................................................................356
Designating a Multicast Router Interface...................................................................................................................356
21 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 357
Basic Interface Conguration....................................................................................................................................... 357
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................357
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................358
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................358
Resetting an Interface to its Factory Default State...................................................................................................360
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................360
Physical Interfaces......................................................................................................................................................... 361
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces.....................................................................................................361
Overview of Layer Modes....................................................................................................................................... 361
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................362
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 362
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................362
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 363
Egress Interface Selection (EIS)..................................................................................................................................364
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 364
Conguring EIS........................................................................................................................................................ 364
Management Interfaces................................................................................................................................................364
Conguring Management Interfaces.....................................................................................................................364
Conguring a Management Interface on an Ethernet Port............................................................................... 366
VLAN Interfaces.............................................................................................................................................................367
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 367
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 368
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 368
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................368
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................368
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................369
Interfaces in Port Channels.................................................................................................................................... 369
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................369
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................370
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................370
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 372
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................372
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................373
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel...........................................................................................................374
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 374
Load Balancing Through Port Channels................................................................................................................ 374
Changing the Hash Algorithm................................................................................................................................ 375
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................376
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................376
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................376
Dening Interface Range Macros.................................................................................................................................377
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Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................378
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 378
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces........................................................................................................................378
Maintenance Using TDR......................................................................................................................................... 379
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports........................................................................................................................... 380
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................380
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 381
Example Scenarios................................................................................................................................................... 381
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................384
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................385
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 385
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................385
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................387
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control.........................................................................................................387
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 388
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................388
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................389
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................389
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................390
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................ 391
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................392
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 392
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 393
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................393
Compressing Conguration Files................................................................................................................................. 394
22 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 398
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................398
23 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................400
IP Addresses....................................................................................................................................................................401
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 401
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses.......................................................................................................................... 401
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface....................................................................................................................... 401
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................402
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................403
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 403
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................404
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 404
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 404
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................405
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................405
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................405
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 406
Conguring DNS with Traceroute............................................................................................................................... 406
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................407
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 407
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Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................408
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................408
Clearing ARP Cache......................................................................................................................................................408
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP............................................................................................................................... 409
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................409
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 409
Conguring ARP Retries................................................................................................................................................410
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................ 410
Conguration Tasks for ICMP........................................................................................................................................411
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages........................................................................................................................411
UDP Helper...................................................................................................................................................................... 411
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................. 411
Important Points to Remember...............................................................................................................................411
Enabling UDP Helper...................................................................................................................................................... 411
Conguring a Broadcast Address................................................................................................................................. 412
Congurations Using UDP Helper................................................................................................................................ 412
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses..................................................................................................................413
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses..........................................................................................................413
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses...................................................................................................414
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses.............................................................................................414
Troubleshooting UDP Helper.........................................................................................................................................415
24 IPv6 Routing.............................................................................................................................................416
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................416
Extended Address Space.........................................................................................................................................417
Stateless Autoconguration.................................................................................................................................... 417
IPv6 Headers.............................................................................................................................................................417
IPv6 Header Fields................................................................................................................................................... 418
Extension Header Fields..........................................................................................................................................420
Addressing................................................................................................................................................................. 421
Implementing IPv6 with Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................. 422
ICMPv6........................................................................................................................................................................... 423
Path MTU Discovery..................................................................................................................................................... 424
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 424
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets...........................................................................................................425
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS.................................................................................................................... 425
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server....................................................................................................... 425
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host ..................................................................................... 426
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................426
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 427
Conguration Tasks for IPv6........................................................................................................................................ 427
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole.................................................................................................................................... 427
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface...........................................................................................................428
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................429
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................429
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................429
Displaying IPv6 Information....................................................................................................................................430
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Displaying an IPv6 Interface Information.............................................................................................................. 430
Showing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................431
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 432
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................432
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard.......................................................................................................................................... 433
Conguring IPv6 RA Guard on an Interface.........................................................................................................435
Monitoring IPv6 RA Guard..................................................................................................................................... 435
25 iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................. 436
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 436
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows............................................................................................................................... 437
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Trac Flows..................................................................................... 438
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows....................................................................................................... 438
Detection and Auto-Conguration for Dell EqualLogic Arrays........................................................................... 439
Conguring Detection and Ports for Dell Compellent Arrays.............................................................................439
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer.................................................................440
Enable and Disable iSCSI Optimization................................................................................................................. 440
Default iSCSI Optimization Values................................................................................................................................441
iSCSI Optimization Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................. 441
Conguring iSCSI Optimization.................................................................................................................................... 441
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................443
26 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 445
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 445
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................445
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 446
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 446
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................446
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................447
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................447
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................447
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................447
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................448
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................448
Conguring the Distance of a Route.....................................................................................................................456
Changing the IS-Type..............................................................................................................................................456
Redistributing IPv4 Routes.....................................................................................................................................459
Redistributing IPv6 Routes.....................................................................................................................................459
Conguring Authentication Passwords.................................................................................................................460
Setting the Overload Bit..........................................................................................................................................461
Debugging IS-IS........................................................................................................................................................461
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................462
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 462
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 463
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................463
Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................464
Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................................465
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27 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)...............................................................................................468
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 468
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 468
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 469
Conguring LACP Commands...............................................................................................................................469
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 470
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................470
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 470
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................ 471
Monitoring and Debugging LACP...........................................................................................................................471
Shared LAG State Tracking...........................................................................................................................................472
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................... 472
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 473
LACP Basic Conguration Example.............................................................................................................................474
Congure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................474
28 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................483
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 483
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 483
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................483
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................484
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 484
MAC Learning Limit....................................................................................................................................................... 484
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 485
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 485
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 485
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 486
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 486
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................486
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 486
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations............................................................................487
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................487
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 488
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................489
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 490
Far-End Failure Detection............................................................................................................................................. 492
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................492
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 493
Enabling FEFD on an Interface...............................................................................................................................494
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................495
29 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)......................................................................................................497
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................497
Protocol Data Units..................................................................................................................................................497
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 498
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 498
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TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................ 500
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................500
Congure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................. 504
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................504
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 504
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................504
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 504
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................505
Disabling and Undoing LLDP..................................................................................................................................505
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................505
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 506
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 507
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................508
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode................................................................................................................... 508
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 509
Debugging LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................510
Relevant Management Objects..................................................................................................................................... 511
30 Microsoft Network Load Balancing...........................................................................................................516
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario.........................................................................................................................................516
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario......................................................................................................................................516
Limitations of the NLB Feature.....................................................................................................................................517
Microsoft Clustering.......................................................................................................................................................517
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................. 517
Conguring a Switch for NLB ......................................................................................................................................517
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB..................................................................................................................... 518
31 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).......................................................................................... 519
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................519
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................520
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 521
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol.........................................................................................................521
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................521
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 525
Manage the Source-Active Cache.............................................................................................................................. 526
Viewing the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................526
Limiting the Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................................526
Clearing the Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................................ 527
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache........................................................................................................527
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check......................................................................................527
Specifying Source-Active Messages...........................................................................................................................530
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer....................................................................................................531
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source........................................................................................................531
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source.................................................................................................. 532
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source..................................................................................................532
Logging Changes in Peership States...........................................................................................................................533
Terminating a Peership..................................................................................................................................................533
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Clearing Peer Statistics.................................................................................................................................................534
Debugging MSDP.......................................................................................................................................................... 534
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................534
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................535
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................536
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 536
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................538
32 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)................................................................................................. 541
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................541
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................542
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................542
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................542
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................542
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 543
Adding and Removing Interfaces.................................................................................................................................543
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 543
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................545
Interoperate with Non-Dell Bridges.............................................................................................................................545
Changing the Region Name or Revision..................................................................................................................... 545
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 546
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................547
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 548
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 549
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................549
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................549
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 552
33 Multicast Features...................................................................................................................................554
Enabling IP Multicast.....................................................................................................................................................554
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 554
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................555
IPv4 Multicast Policies............................................................................................................................................555
34 Object Tracking....................................................................................................................................... 563
Object Tracking Overview............................................................................................................................................ 563
Track Layer 2 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................564
Track Layer 3 Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................564
Track IPv4 and IPv6 Routes...................................................................................................................................565
Set Tracking Delays................................................................................................................................................. 566
VRRP Object Tracking............................................................................................................................................ 566
Object Tracking Conguration..................................................................................................................................... 566
Tracking a Layer 2 Interface...................................................................................................................................566
Tracking a Layer 3 Interface................................................................................................................................... 567
Track an IPv4/IPv6 Route...................................................................................................................................... 568
Displaying Tracked Objects........................................................................................................................................... 572
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35 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3).................................................................................... 574
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 574
Autonomous System (AS) Areas............................................................................................................................574
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 575
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................ 576
Router Types.............................................................................................................................................................576
Designated and Backup Designated Routers....................................................................................................... 578
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................ 578
Router Priority and Cost......................................................................................................................................... 579
OSPF with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................................580
Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................................... 581
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)..............................................................................................................582
Multi-Process OSPFv2 with VRF..........................................................................................................................582
RFC-2328 Compliant OSPF Flooding................................................................................................................... 582
OSPF ACK Packing................................................................................................................................................. 583
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers...................................................................................................... 583
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................584
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4)........................................................................................ 584
Sample Congurations for OSPFv2.............................................................................................................................597
Basic OSPFv2 Router Topology............................................................................................................................. 597
OSPF Area 0 — Te 1/1 and 1/2..............................................................................................................................597
OSPF Area 0 — Te 3/1 and 3/2............................................................................................................................598
OSPF Area 0 — Te 2/1 and 2/2............................................................................................................................598
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6).............................................................................................. 598
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing...............................................................................................................................599
Applying cost for OSPFv3......................................................................................................................................599
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface........................................................................................................... 599
Assigning Area ID on an Interface..........................................................................................................................600
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally........................................................................................600
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID to a VRF.......................................................................................601
Conguring Stub Areas............................................................................................................................................601
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................ 601
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................602
Conguring a Default Route...................................................................................................................................602
Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................... 603
OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec.....................................................................................................................605
Troubleshooting OSPFv3..........................................................................................................................................611
36 Policy-based Routing (PBR).....................................................................................................................612
Overview......................................................................................................................................................................... 612
Implementing PBR..........................................................................................................................................................613
Conguration Task List for Policy-based Routing.......................................................................................................613
PBR Exceptions (Permit)........................................................................................................................................ 614
Create a Redirect List.................................................................................................................................................... 614
Create a Rule for a Redirect-list................................................................................................................................... 614
Apply a Redirect-list to an Interface using a Redirect-group.................................................................................... 616
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