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Dell PowerEdge FN IO Module
Conguration Guide
9.13.0.0
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2017 - 12
Rev. A00
Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................33
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................33
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................33
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................33
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 34
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................35
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 35
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................35
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 35
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................36
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................36
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 36
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................37
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................ 37
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................... 37
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................ 37
Link Aggregation.............................................................................................................................................................. 38
Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................38
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 38
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................39
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 40
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................40
CLI Modes......................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................41
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................44
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................45
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................46
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................50
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................50
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Entering CLI commands Using an SSH Connection..............................................................................................50
Executing Local CLI Scripts Using an SSH Connection........................................................................................50
Boot Process.....................................................................................................................................................................51
Default Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Host Name............................................................................................................................................... 52
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................53
Accessing the System Remotely....................................................................................................................................53
Accessing the Switch Remotely...............................................................................................................................53
Congure the Management Port IP Address......................................................................................................... 53
Congure a Management Route..............................................................................................................................54
Conguring a Username and Password.................................................................................................................. 54
Conguring the Enable Password..................................................................................................................................55
Conguration File Management.....................................................................................................................................55
Copy Files to and from the System......................................................................................................................... 56
Save the Running-Conguration..............................................................................................................................57
Viewing Files...............................................................................................................................................................58
Managing the File System.............................................................................................................................................. 59
View the Command History........................................................................................................................................... 60
Using HTTP for File Transfers........................................................................................................................................ 60
Upgrading and Downgrading the Dell Networking OS.................................................................................................61
Verify Software Images Before Installation....................................................................................................................61
Deploying FN I/O Module............................................................................................................................................... 62
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................63
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................ 63
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................65
Verifying the Congurations.....................................................................................................................................65
5 Management................................................................................................................................................67
Conguring Privilege Levels............................................................................................................................................67
Creating a Custom Privilege Level...........................................................................................................................68
Customizing a Privilege Level...................................................................................................................................68
Applying a Privilege Level to a Username............................................................................................................... 70
Applying a Privilege Level to a Terminal Line.......................................................................................................... 70
Conguring Logging.........................................................................................................................................................70
Audit and Security Logs............................................................................................................................................. 71
Conguring Logging Format ...................................................................................................................................72
Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server.............................................................................................73
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 74
Log Messages in the Internal Buer.............................................................................................................................. 74
Conguration Task List for System Log Management.......................................................................................... 75
Disabling System Logging............................................................................................................................................... 75
Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server............................................................................................................75
Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server.....................................................................................................75
Changing System Logging Settings...............................................................................................................................76
Display the Logging Buer and the Logging Conguration........................................................................................ 77
Conguring a UNIX Logging Facility Level.................................................................................................................... 77
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Synchronizing Log Messages......................................................................................................................................... 78
Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages.................................................................................................................... 79
Enabling Secure Management Mode............................................................................................................................ 79
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 80
File Transfer Services...................................................................................................................................................... 80
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services..................................................................................................80
Enabling the FTP Server...........................................................................................................................................80
Conguring FTP Server Parameters........................................................................................................................ 81
Conguring FTP Client Parameters..........................................................................................................................81
Terminal Lines................................................................................................................................................................... 82
Denying and Permitting Access to a Terminal Line................................................................................................82
Conguring Login Authentication for Terminal Lines.............................................................................................82
Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode...................................................................................................................83
Using Telnet to get to Another Network Device..........................................................................................................84
Lock CONFIGURATION Mode....................................................................................................................................... 84
Viewing the Conguration Lock Status...................................................................................................................85
Limit Concurrent Login Sessions....................................................................................................................................85
Restrictions for Limiting the Number of Concurrent Sessions............................................................................ 85
Conguring Concurrent Session Limit.....................................................................................................................86
Enabling the System to Clear Existing Sessions.................................................................................................... 86
Track Login Activity..........................................................................................................................................................87
Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity...................................................................................................................87
Conguring Login Activity Tracking......................................................................................................................... 87
Display Login Statistics..............................................................................................................................................88
Recovering from a Forgotten Password....................................................................................................................... 89
Recovering from a Forgotten Enable Password.......................................................................................................... 90
Recovering from a Failed Start....................................................................................................................................... 91
6 802.1X..........................................................................................................................................................92
The Port-Authentication Process.................................................................................................................................. 95
EAP over RADIUS......................................................................................................................................................96
Conguring 802.1X...........................................................................................................................................................96
Related Conguration Tasks..................................................................................................................................... 96
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................97
Enabling 802.1X.................................................................................................................................................................97
Conguring Request Identity Re-Transmissions.....................................................................................................98
Conguring a Quiet Period after a Failed Authentication..................................................................................... 99
Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port..............................................................................................................100
Re-Authenticating a Port............................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Timeouts..................................................................................................................................................... 101
Conguring Dynamic VLAN Assignment with Port Authentication......................................................................... 102
Guest and Authentication-Fail VLANs...................................................................................................................103
Conguring a Guest VLAN......................................................................................................................................104
Conguring an Authentication-Fail VLAN............................................................................................................. 104
7 Access Control List (ACL) VLAN Groups and Content Addressable Memory (CAM)...................................106
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Optimizing CAM Utilization During the Attachment of ACLs to VLANs................................................................. 106
Guidelines for Conguring ACL VLAN groups............................................................................................................ 107
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups and Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters...............................................108
Conguring ACL VLAN Groups.............................................................................................................................. 108
Conguring FP Blocks for VLAN Parameters.......................................................................................................109
Viewing CAM Usage...................................................................................................................................................... 109
Allocating FP Blocks for VLAN Processes....................................................................................................................111
8 Access Control Lists (ACLs)........................................................................................................................112
IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)......................................................................................................................................113
Implementing ACL on the Dell Networking OS........................................................................................................... 113
ACLs and VLANs.............................................................................................................................................................114
ACL Optimization............................................................................................................................................................ 114
Determine the Order in which ACLs are Used to Classify Trac..............................................................................114
Example of the order Keyword to Determine ACL Sequence..............................................................................114
IP Fragment Handling..................................................................................................................................................... 115
IP Fragments ACL Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Layer 4 ACL Rules Examples......................................................................................................................................... 115
Congure a Standard IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................116
Conguring a Standard IP ACL Filter............................................................................................................................ 117
Congure an Extended IP ACL......................................................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters with a Sequence Number..............................................................................................................118
Conguring Filters Without a Sequence Number....................................................................................................... 118
Established Flag...............................................................................................................................................................119
Congure Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs............................................................................................................................ 119
Assign an IP ACL to an Interface..................................................................................................................................120
Applying an IP ACL.........................................................................................................................................................120
Counting ACL Hits...........................................................................................................................................................121
Congure Ingress ACLs.................................................................................................................................................. 121
Congure Egress ACLs...................................................................................................................................................121
Applying Egress Layer 3 ACLs (Control-Plane).......................................................................................................... 122
IP Prex Lists.................................................................................................................................................................. 122
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 123
Conguration Task List for Prex Lists........................................................................................................................ 123
Creating a Prex List......................................................................................................................................................123
Creating a Prex List Without a Sequence Number.................................................................................................. 124
Viewing Prex Lists........................................................................................................................................................125
Applying a Prex List for Route Redistribution...........................................................................................................125
Applying a Filter to a Prex List (OSPF)......................................................................................................................126
ACL Resequencing......................................................................................................................................................... 126
Resequencing an ACL or Prex List............................................................................................................................. 127
Route Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................128
Implementation Information.................................................................................................................................... 128
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 129
Conguration Task List for Route Maps...................................................................................................................... 129
Creating a Route Map....................................................................................................................................................129
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Congure Route Map Filters.........................................................................................................................................130
Conguring Match Routes.............................................................................................................................................131
Conguring Set Conditions........................................................................................................................................... 132
Congure a Route Map for Route Redistribution.......................................................................................................132
Congure a Route Map for Route Tagging..................................................................................................................133
Continue Clause..............................................................................................................................................................133
Logging of ACL Processes............................................................................................................................................ 134
Guidelines for Conguring ACL Logging......................................................................................................................134
Conguring ACL Logging.............................................................................................................................................. 135
Flow-Based Monitoring Support for ACLs..................................................................................................................135
Behavior of Flow-Based Monitoring.......................................................................................................................136
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring.................................................................................................................................. 137
9 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).................................................................................................. 139
How BFD Works............................................................................................................................................................. 139
BFD Packet Format..................................................................................................................................................140
BFD Sessions............................................................................................................................................................. 141
BFD Three-Way Handshake.................................................................................................................................... 142
Session State Changes............................................................................................................................................144
Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................................................... 144
Congure BFD................................................................................................................................................................ 144
Congure BFD for Physical Ports...........................................................................................................................145
Enabling BFD Globally.............................................................................................................................................. 145
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 146
Disabling and Re-Enabling BFD.............................................................................................................................. 146
Congure BFD for Static Routes..................................................................................................................................147
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................147
Establishing Sessions for Static Routes.................................................................................................................147
Establishing Static Route Sessions on Specic Neighbors................................................................................. 148
Changing Static Route Session Parameters......................................................................................................... 149
Disabling BFD for Static Routes............................................................................................................................. 149
Congure BFD for OSPF...............................................................................................................................................149
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................150
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors........................................................................................................150
Establishing Sessions with OSPF Neighbors for nondefault VRFs.....................................................................151
Changing OSPF Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................152
Disabling BFD for OSPF...........................................................................................................................................152
Congure BFD for OSPFv3...........................................................................................................................................152
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................153
Establishing Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors....................................................................................................153
Establishing BFD Sessions with OSPFv3 Neighbors for nondefault VRFs....................................................... 153
Changing OSPFv3 Session Parameters.................................................................................................................154
Disabling BFD for OSPFv3...................................................................................................................................... 155
Congure BFD for BGP.................................................................................................................................................155
Prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................................155
Establishing Sessions with BGP Neighbors.......................................................................................................... 155
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Disabling BFD for BGP.............................................................................................................................................160
Use BFD in a BGP Peer Group............................................................................................................................... 160
Displaying BFD for BGP Information......................................................................................................................160
Congure BFD for VRRP...............................................................................................................................................164
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................164
Establishing Sessions with All VRRP Neighbors...................................................................................................165
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors................................................................................................165
Changing VRRP Session Parameters.................................................................................................................... 166
Disabling BFD for VRRP.......................................................................................................................................... 166
Congure BFD for VLANs............................................................................................................................................. 167
Related Conguration Task......................................................................................................................................167
Establish Sessions with VLAN Neighbors............................................................................................................. 168
Changing VLAN Session Parameters.....................................................................................................................168
Disabling BFD for VLANs.........................................................................................................................................169
Congure BFD for Port-Channels................................................................................................................................169
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................169
Establish Sessions on Port-Channels.....................................................................................................................170
Changing Physical Port Session Parameters........................................................................................................ 170
Disabling BFD for Port-Channels.............................................................................................................................171
Conguring Protocol Liveness....................................................................................................................................... 171
10 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)................................................................................................... 172
Autonomous Systems (AS)........................................................................................................................................... 172
Sessions and Peers.........................................................................................................................................................174
Establish a Session....................................................................................................................................................174
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................175
Communities............................................................................................................................................................. 176
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................176
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 176
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................178
Local Preference.......................................................................................................................................................178
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................179
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................180
AS Path.......................................................................................................................................................................181
Next Hop....................................................................................................................................................................181
Multiprotocol BGP...........................................................................................................................................................181
Implement BGP with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................182
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................182
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 182
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations............................................................................................. 183
Four-Byte AS Numbers............................................................................................................................................183
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 183
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 185
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................186
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 186
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................187
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BGP Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................187
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 188
Enabling MBGP Congurations.............................................................................................................................. 218
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................219
Debugging BGP.............................................................................................................................................................. 219
Storing Last and Bad PDUs....................................................................................................................................220
PDU Counters...........................................................................................................................................................221
Sample Congurations...................................................................................................................................................221
11 Conguration Cloning............................................................................................................................... 230
Cloning Conguration Output Status..........................................................................................................................230
12 Content Addressable Memory (CAM).......................................................................................................233
CAM Allocation...............................................................................................................................................................233
Test CAM Usage............................................................................................................................................................ 234
View CAM-ACL Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 234
Conguring CAM Threshold and Silence Period........................................................................................................235
Setting CAM Threshold and Silence Period......................................................................................................... 235
CAM Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 236
13 Control Plane Policing (CoPP)..................................................................................................................237
Congure Control Plane Policing................................................................................................................................. 238
Conguring CoPP for Protocols............................................................................................................................ 239
Conguring CoPP for CPU Queues...................................................................................................................... 240
Show Commands..................................................................................................................................................... 241
14 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..................................................................................................................... 243
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 243
Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................243
Priority-Based Flow Control......................................................................................................................................... 244
Enhanced Transmission Selection................................................................................................................................245
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx).....................................................................................................247
Creating a DCB Map......................................................................................................................................................247
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................247
Applying a DCB Map on Server-Facing Ethernet Ports......................................................................................248
Data Center Bridging: Default Conguration..............................................................................................................248
Data Center Bridging in a Trac Flow.........................................................................................................................249
Data Center Bridging: Auto-DCB-Enable Mode........................................................................................................ 249
Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.....................................................................................................................251
How Priority-Based Flow Control is Implemented...............................................................................................253
Conguring Lossless Queues................................................................................................................................. 253
Conguring the PFC Buer in a Switch Stack.................................................................................................... 254
Conguring Enhanced Transmission Selection.......................................................................................................... 255
How Enhanced Transmission Selection is Implemented..................................................................................... 255
ETS Operation with DCBx......................................................................................................................................256
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies......................................................................................................... 256
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DCBx Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 257
DCBx Operation....................................................................................................................................................... 257
DCBx Port Roles...................................................................................................................................................... 257
DCB Conguration Exchange................................................................................................................................ 258
Conguration Source Election............................................................................................................................... 259
Propagation of DCB Information........................................................................................................................... 259
Auto-Detection of the DCBx Version....................................................................................................................260
DCBx Example......................................................................................................................................................... 260
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions..................................................................................................................... 261
DCBx Error Messages.............................................................................................................................................262
Debugging DCBx on an Interface.......................................................................................................................... 262
Verifying the DCB Conguration................................................................................................................................. 262
QoS dot1p Trac Classication and Queue Assignment...........................................................................................271
Troubleshooting PFC, ETS, and DCBx Operation.......................................................................................................271
15 Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP)......................................................................................... 274
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 274
Assigning an IP Address using DHCP.......................................................................................................................... 274
Debugging DHCP Client Operation..............................................................................................................................276
DHCP Client....................................................................................................................................................................277
How DHCP Client is Implemented............................................................................................................................... 278
DHCP Client on a Management Interface.................................................................................................................. 278
DHCP Client on a VLAN................................................................................................................................................279
DHCP Packet Format and Options..............................................................................................................................279
Option 82........................................................................................................................................................................280
Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based IP Addresses.................................................................................................281
Viewing DHCP Statistics and Lease Information........................................................................................................281
DHCP Snooping............................................................................................................................................................. 282
DHCP Snooping for a Multi-Tenant Host..............................................................................................................282
DHCP Snooping in a VLT Setup.............................................................................................................................283
Enabling DHCP Snooping....................................................................................................................................... 283
Enabling IPv6 DHCP Snooping.............................................................................................................................. 283
Adding a Static Entry in the Binding Table............................................................................................................283
Adding a Static IPV6 DHCP Snooping Binding Table.......................................................................................... 284
Clearing the Binding Table...................................................................................................................................... 284
Clearing the DHCP IPv6 Binding Table................................................................................................................. 284
Displaying the Contents of the Binding Table.......................................................................................................284
Displaying the Contents of the DHCPv6 Binding Table...................................................................................... 285
Debugging the IPv6 DHCP.....................................................................................................................................285
IPv6 DHCP Snooping MAC-Address Verication................................................................................................286
16 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)................................................................................................................ 287
ECMP for Flow-Based Anity..................................................................................................................................... 287
Enabling Deterministic ECMP Next Hop...............................................................................................................287
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................287
Managing ECMP Group Paths.....................................................................................................................................288
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17 FC FPORT................................................................................................................................................289
FC FPORT......................................................................................................................................................................290
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode............................................................................................................290
Name Server...................................................................................................................................................................291
FCoE Maps.....................................................................................................................................................................292
Creating an FCoE Map..................................................................................................................................................292
Zoning..............................................................................................................................................................................293
Creating Zone and Adding Members...........................................................................................................................294
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members..................................................................................................................294
Creating Zonesets..........................................................................................................................................................294
Activating a Zoneset..................................................................................................................................................... 295
Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................ 295
18 FCoE Transit.............................................................................................................................................298
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................298
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 298
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................298
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................300
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack....................................................................................................................................301
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 302
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 302
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................302
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................303
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 303
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 Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................304
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 304
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................305
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................305
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 310
19 FIPS Cryptography................................................................................................................................... 313
Preparing the System.................................................................................................................................................... 313
Enabling FIPS Mode.......................................................................................................................................................313
Generating Host-Keys....................................................................................................................................................314
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status...................................................................................................................................... 314
Disabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 315
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 316
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................316
Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................ 317
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 318
Important FRRP Points............................................................................................................................................319
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Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 320
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 321
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 321
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 321
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................321
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................323
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................324
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 324
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................324
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................324
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 325
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................325
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................325
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................327
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 328
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 329
21 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................330
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 330
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 330
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................331
Enabling GVRP Globally.................................................................................................................................................331
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................332
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................332
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 333
22 FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................... 334
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................334
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 334
Ensuring Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network.........................................................................................334
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 336
How FIP Snooping is Implemented.............................................................................................................................. 337
FIP Snooping on VLANs..........................................................................................................................................337
FC-MAP Value......................................................................................................................................................... 338
Bridge-to-FCF Links................................................................................................................................................338
Impact on other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 338
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................338
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 339
Conguring FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................339
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................340
FIP Snooping Example.................................................................................................................................................. 345
Debugging FIP Snooping.............................................................................................................................................. 345
23 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)......................................................................................... 347
IGMP Overview..............................................................................................................................................................347
IGMP Version 2.............................................................................................................................................................. 347
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Joining a Multicast Group.......................................................................................................................................348
Leaving a Multicast Group......................................................................................................................................348
IGMP Version 3.............................................................................................................................................................. 348
Joining and Filtering Groups and Sources............................................................................................................ 349
Leaving and Staying in Groups...............................................................................................................................350
IGMP Snooping...............................................................................................................................................................351
How IGMP Snooping is Implemented on an Aggregator...........................................................................................351
Disabling Multicast Flooding..........................................................................................................................................351
Displaying IGMP Information.........................................................................................................................................351
24 Interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 354
Basic Interface Conguration.......................................................................................................................................354
Advanced Interface Conguration...............................................................................................................................354
Interface Types...............................................................................................................................................................355
View Basic Interface Information.................................................................................................................................355
Conguring the Default Interface................................................................................................................................ 357
Enabling a Physical Interface........................................................................................................................................358
Physical Interfaces.........................................................................................................................................................358
Conguration Task List for Physical Interfaces....................................................................................................358
Overview of Layer Modes...................................................................................................................................... 359
Conguring Layer 2 (Data Link) Mode..................................................................................................................359
Conguring Layer 2 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 359
Conguring Layer 3 (Network) Mode...................................................................................................................360
Conguring Layer 3 (Interface) Mode.................................................................................................................. 360
Management Interfaces.................................................................................................................................................361
Conguring Management Interfaces on the Switch........................................................................................... 362
VLAN Interfaces............................................................................................................................................................ 363
Loopback Interfaces...................................................................................................................................................... 363
Null Interfaces................................................................................................................................................................ 364
VLAN Membership........................................................................................................................................................ 364
Default VLAN .......................................................................................................................................................... 365
Port-Based VLANs..................................................................................................................................................365
VLANs and Port Tagging........................................................................................................................................ 365
Conguring VLAN Membership.............................................................................................................................366
Displaying VLAN Membership................................................................................................................................366
Adding an Interface to a Tagged VLAN.................................................................................................................367
Adding an Interface to an Untagged VLAN.......................................................................................................... 367
VLAN Conguration on Physical Ports and Port-Channels................................................................................368
Port Channel Interfaces................................................................................................................................................369
Port Channel Denition and Standards.................................................................................................................369
Port Channel Benets.............................................................................................................................................369
Port Channel Implementation.................................................................................................................................370
100/1000/10000 Mbps Interfaces in Port Channels...........................................................................................370
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces..................................................................................................371
Creating a Port Channel...........................................................................................................................................371
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel......................................................................................................371
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Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................ 373
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel...............................................................................374
Adding or Removing a Port Channel from a VLAN..............................................................................................374
Assigning an IP Address to a Port Channel.......................................................................................................... 375
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 375
Load Balancing through Port Channels.......................................................................................................................375
Changing the Hash Algorithm...................................................................................................................................... 375
Server Ports....................................................................................................................................................................376
Default Conguration without Start-up Cong....................................................................................................376
Bulk Conguration..........................................................................................................................................................377
Interface Range........................................................................................................................................................ 377
Bulk Conguration Examples..................................................................................................................................378
Dening Interface Range Macros................................................................................................................................ 379
Dene the Interface Range.....................................................................................................................................379
Choosing an Interface-Range Macro.................................................................................................................... 379
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces....................................................................................................................... 380
Maintenance Using TDR..........................................................................................................................................381
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................381
Merging SFP+ Ports to QSFP 40G Ports.............................................................................................................382
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface..............................................................................................................382
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................383
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port..................................................................................383
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 384
Example Scenarios...................................................................................................................................................384
Layer 2 Flow Control Using Ethernet Pause Frames................................................................................................ 384
Enabling Pause Frames...........................................................................................................................................385
Congure MTU Size on an Interface...........................................................................................................................385
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................386
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces...................................................................................................................386
Setting the Speed and Duplex Mode of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................386
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................388
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 389
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally.................................................................................................... 390
Dynamic Counters.................................................................................................................................................... 391
Enhanced Control of Remote Fault Indication Processing....................................................................................... 392
25 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 394
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................394
26 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................396
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................396
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................397
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses....................................................................................................................397
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 399
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................400
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 400
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Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 400
Enabling Directed Broadcast.........................................................................................................................................401
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................ 401
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names.......................................................................................................401
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains............................................................................. 402
Conguring DNS with Traceroute..........................................................................................................................402
ARP................................................................................................................................................................................. 403
Conguration Tasks for ARP.................................................................................................................................. 403
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP............................................................................................................................... 405
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 405
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................406
ICMP................................................................................................................................................................................407
Conguration Tasks for ICMP................................................................................................................................ 407
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................407
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................407
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................407
Enabling UDP Helper...............................................................................................................................................408
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 408
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses...........................................................................................................408
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses...................................................................................................409
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................409
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses...................................................................................... 410
Troubleshooting UDP Helper.........................................................................................................................................410
27 IPv6 Routing.............................................................................................................................................412
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................412
Extended Address Space.........................................................................................................................................413
Stateless Autoconguration.................................................................................................................................... 413
IPv6 Header Fields......................................................................................................................................................... 414
Version (4 bits)..........................................................................................................................................................414
Trac Class (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................. 414
Flow Label (20 bits)..................................................................................................................................................414
Payload Length (16 bits)..........................................................................................................................................414
Next Header (8 bits)................................................................................................................................................415
Hop Limit (8 bits)......................................................................................................................................................415
Source Address (128 bits)....................................................................................................................................... 416
Destination Address (128 bits)................................................................................................................................416
Extension Header Fields................................................................................................................................................ 416
Hop-by-Hop Options Header..................................................................................................................................416
Addressing....................................................................................................................................................................... 417
Link-local Addresses.................................................................................................................................................417
Static and Dynamic Addressing.............................................................................................................................. 417
Implementing IPv6 with the Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................................418
ICMPv6............................................................................................................................................................................419
Path MTU Discovery.....................................................................................................................................................420
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.............................................................................................................................................. 420
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IPv6 Neighbor Discovery of MTU Packets........................................................................................................... 421
Conguration Task List for IPv6 RDNSS..................................................................................................................... 421
Conguring the IPv6 Recursive DNS Server........................................................................................................ 421
Displaying IPv6 RDNSS Information......................................................................................................................422
Debugging IPv6 RDNSS Information Sent to the Host .....................................................................................422
IPv6 Multicast................................................................................................................................................................ 422
Conguration Task List for IPv6...................................................................................................................................423
Adjusting Your CAM-Prole....................................................................................................................................423
Assigning an IPv6 Address to an Interface........................................................................................................... 424
Assigning a Static IPv6 Route................................................................................................................................ 424
Conguring Telnet with IPv6..................................................................................................................................425
SNMP over IPv6......................................................................................................................................................425
Showing IPv6 Information...................................................................................................................................... 425
Showing an IPv6 Interface..................................................................................................................................... 426
Showing IPv6 Routes..............................................................................................................................................426
Showing the Running-Conguration for an Interface......................................................................................... 427
Clearing IPv6 Routes...............................................................................................................................................428
Disabling ND Entry Timeout................................................................................................................................... 428
Secure Shell (SSH) Over an IPv6 Transport.............................................................................................................. 428
28 iSCSI Optimization...................................................................................................................................429
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................429
iSCSI Optimization Overview....................................................................................................................................... 429
Monitoring iSCSI Trac Flows.....................................................................................................................................430
Information Monitored in iSCSI Trac Flows..............................................................................................................431
Synchronizing iSCSI Sessions Learned on VLT-Lags with VLT-Peer........................................................................431
iSCSI Optimization: Operation...................................................................................................................................... 431
Conguring iSCSI Optimization....................................................................................................................................432
Displaying iSCSI Optimization Information..................................................................................................................433
29 Intermediate System to Intermediate System.......................................................................................... 435
IS-IS Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................................... 435
IS-IS Addressing.............................................................................................................................................................435
Multi-Topology IS-IS...................................................................................................................................................... 436
Transition Mode....................................................................................................................................................... 436
Interface Support.....................................................................................................................................................437
Adjacencies...............................................................................................................................................................437
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................437
Timers........................................................................................................................................................................437
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................438
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................438
Conguration Tasks for IS-IS..................................................................................................................................439
IS-IS Metric Styles.........................................................................................................................................................453
Congure Metric Values............................................................................................................................................... 453
Maximum Values in the Routing Table.................................................................................................................. 453
Change the IS-IS Metric Style in One Level Only................................................................................................453
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Leaks from One Level to Another..........................................................................................................................455
Sample Congurations..................................................................................................................................................456
30 Isolated Networks for Aggregators.......................................................................................................... 460
Conguring and Verifying Isolated Network Settings............................................................................................... 460
31 Link Aggregation....................................................................................................................................... 461
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................461
How the LACP is Implemented on an Aggregator..................................................................................................... 461
Uplink LAG................................................................................................................................................................462
Server-Facing LAGs................................................................................................................................................ 462
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 462
Auto-Congured LACP Timeout............................................................................................................................462
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)................................................................................................................ 463
Conguration Tasks for Port Channel Interfaces.................................................................................................463
Creating a Port Channel..........................................................................................................................................463
Adding a Physical Interface to a Port Channel.....................................................................................................463
Reassigning an Interface to a New Port Channel................................................................................................465
Conguring the Minimum Oper Up Links in a Port Channel.............................................................................. 466
Conguring VLAN Tags for Member Interfaces.................................................................................................. 466
Deleting or Disabling a Port Channel..................................................................................................................... 467
Conguring Auto LAG................................................................................................................................................... 467
Conguring the Minimum Number of Links to be Up for Uplink LAGs to be Active.............................................469
Optimizing Trac Disruption Over LAG Interfaces On IOA Switches in VLT Mode..............................................470
Preserving LAG and Port Channel Settings in Nonvolatile Storage........................................................................ 470
Enabling LACP link-fallback.......................................................................................................................................... 470
Enabling the Verication of Member Links Utilization in a LAG Bundle...................................................................471
Monitoring the Member Links of a LAG Bundle......................................................................................................... 471
Verifying LACP Operation and LAG Conguration.................................................................................................... 472
Multiple Uplink LAGs with 10G Member Ports...........................................................................................................474
32 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................476
Supported Modes.......................................................................................................................................................... 476
Managing the MAC Address Table.............................................................................................................................. 476
Clearing the MAC Address Entries........................................................................................................................ 476
Displaying the MAC Address Table.........................................................................................................................477
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................477
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming............................................................................................................. 478
MAC Address Station Move................................................................................................................................... 478
MAC Move Optimization........................................................................................................................................ 479
33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)..................................................................................................... 480
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................480
Protocol Data Units....................................................................................................................................................... 480
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................482
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 482
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Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................482
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 482
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................483
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 483
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 483
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 484
Management TLVs...................................................................................................................................................484
IEEE Organizationally Specic TLVs......................................................................................................................485
LLDP-MED Capabilities TLV...................................................................................................................................486
LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV..........................................................................................................................487
Extended Power via MDI TLV................................................................................................................................ 488
LLDP Operation............................................................................................................................................................. 488
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................489
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 489
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..............................................................................................489
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 490
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 490
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 490
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals......................................................................................................................................491
Conguring a Time to Live............................................................................................................................................492
Clearing LLDP Counters............................................................................................................................................... 492
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................493
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 493
34 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 499
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................499
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................499
Limitations With Enabling NLB on Switches..............................................................................................................500
Benets and Working of Microsoft Clustering...........................................................................................................500
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 500
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................500
Multicast NLB Mode................................................................................................................................................501
35 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 502
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................502
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................504
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 505
Congure the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol.................................................................................................505
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................505
Enabling MSDP..............................................................................................................................................................509
Manage the Source-Active Cache...............................................................................................................................510
Viewing the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 510
Limiting the Source-Active Cache......................................................................................................................... 510
Clearing the Source-Active Cache..........................................................................................................................511
Enabling the Rejected Source-Active Cache.........................................................................................................511
Accept Source-Active Messages that Fail the RFP Check....................................................................................... 511
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Specifying Source-Active Messages........................................................................................................................... 515
Limiting the Source-Active Messages from a Peer....................................................................................................516
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Local Source........................................................................................................516
Preventing MSDP from Caching a Remote Source................................................................................................... 517
Preventing MSDP from Advertising a Local Source...................................................................................................517
Logging Changes in Peership States............................................................................................................................518
Terminating a Peership...................................................................................................................................................518
Clearing Peer Statistics..................................................................................................................................................519
Debugging MSDP...........................................................................................................................................................519
MSDP with Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................520
Conguring Anycast RP................................................................................................................................................ 521
Reducing Source-Active Message Flooding.........................................................................................................522
Specifying the RP Address Used in SA Messages.............................................................................................. 522
MSDP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................524
36 Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP).................................................................................................527
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 527
Spanning Tree Variations...............................................................................................................................................528
Implementation Information..........................................................................................................................................528
Congure Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol................................................................................................................528
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................529
Enable Multiple Spanning Tree Globally...................................................................................................................... 529
Creating Multiple Spanning Tree Instances................................................................................................................ 529
Inuencing MSTP Root Selection................................................................................................................................530
Interoperate with Non-Dell Networking OS Bridges..................................................................................................531
Changing the Region Name or Revision......................................................................................................................531
Modifying Global Parameters....................................................................................................................................... 532
Enable BPDU Filtering Globally.................................................................................................................................... 533
Modifying the Interface Parameters............................................................................................................................533
Conguring an EdgePort.............................................................................................................................................. 534
Flush MAC Addresses after a Topology Change....................................................................................................... 535
MSTP Sample Congurations......................................................................................................................................535
Router 1 Running-CongurationRouter 2 Running-CongurationRouter 3 Running-
CongurationSFTOS Example Running-Conguration.......................................................................................536
Debugging and Verifying MSTP Congurations........................................................................................................ 539
37 Multicast Features....................................................................................................................................541
Enabling IP Multicast..................................................................................................................................................... 541
Implementation Information.......................................................................................................................................... 541
First Packet Forwarding for Lossless Multicast.........................................................................................................542
Multicast Policies...........................................................................................................................................................542
IPv4 Multicast Policies.................................................................................................................................................. 542
Limiting the Number of Multicast Routes............................................................................................................ 543
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group.............................................................................................................. 543
Rate Limiting IGMP Join Requests........................................................................................................................546
Preventing a PIM Router from Forming an Adjacency....................................................................................... 546
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Preventing a Source from Registering with the RP............................................................................................ 546
Preventing a PIM Router from Processing a Join............................................................................................... 549
Understanding Multicast Traceroute (mtrace).......................................................................................................... 549
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 550
Printing Multicast Traceroute (mtrace) Paths........................................................................................................... 550
Supported Error Codes..................................................................................................................................................551
mtrace Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................................552
38 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)................................................................................... 558
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................558
Autonomous System (AS) Areas........................................................................................................................... 558
Area Types................................................................................................................................................................ 559
Networks and Neighbors........................................................................................................................................560
Router Types............................................................................................................................................................ 560
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)........................................................................................................................562
Router Priority and Cost.........................................................................................................................................563
OSPF with the Dell Networking OS............................................................................................................................564
Graceful Restart...................................................................................................................................................... 565
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)..............................................................................................................566
Processing SNMP and Sending SNMP Traps......................................................................................................566
OSPF ACK Packing................................................................................................................................................. 566
Setting OSPF Adjacency with Cisco Routers...................................................................................................... 566
Conguration Information............................................................................................................................................. 567
Conguration Task List for OSPFv2 (OSPF for IPv4).........................................................................................567
Troubleshooting OSPFv2........................................................................................................................................ 578
OSPFv3 NSSA............................................................................................................................................................... 582
NSSA Options.......................................................................................................................................................... 582
Conguration Task List for OSPFv3 (OSPF for IPv6).............................................................................................. 582
Enabling IPv6 Unicast Routing...............................................................................................................................583
Assigning IPv6 Addresses on an Interface............................................................................................................583
Assigning Area ID on an Interface..........................................................................................................................584
Assigning OSPFv3 Process ID and Router ID Globally........................................................................................584
Conguring Stub Areas...........................................................................................................................................585
Conguring Passive-Interface................................................................................................................................585
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................585
Conguring a Default Route...................................................................................................................................586
Enabling OSPFv3 Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................... 586
Displaying Graceful Restart.................................................................................................................................... 587
OSPFv3 Authentication Using IPsec.....................................................................................................................588
39 Policy-based Routing (PBR).................................................................................................................... 596
Overview........................................................................................................................................................................ 596
Implementing Policy-based Routing with Dell Networking OS................................................................................ 598
Conguration Task List for Policy-based Routing......................................................................................................598
PBR Exceptions (Permit)....................................................................................................................................... 600
Apply a Redirect-list to an Interface using a Redirect-group................................................................................... 602
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