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- Page 5 and 6: 1 About this Guide . . . . . . . .
- Page 7 and 8: Data Center Bridging Exchange Proto
- Page 9 and 10: Displaying VLAN Membership . . . .
- Page 11 and 12: Read Managed Object Values . . . .
- Page 13 and 14: Troubleshooting Packet Loss . . . .
- Page 15 and 16: About this Guide Objectives 1 This
- Page 17 and 18: Before You Start Default Settings 2
- Page 19 and 20: DCB Support DCB enhancements for da
- Page 21 and 22: The untagged VLAN of a server-facin
- Page 23 and 24: Configuration Fundamentals 3 The De
- Page 25 and 26: Navigating CLI Modes The FTOS promp
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- Page 29 and 30: Table 3-2. Short-Cut Keys and their
- Page 31 and 32: Multiple Users in Configuration Mod
- Page 33 and 34: Getting Started This chapter contai
- Page 35 and 36: Uplink Ports Ports 33 to 56 are ext
- Page 37 and 38: Step Task (continued) Note: Termina
- Page 39 and 40: Figure 4-4. Completed Boot Process
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- Page 53 and 54: Aggregator Management This chapter
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- Page 57 and 58: Configuring a UNIX Logging Facility
- Page 59 and 60: Enabling the FTP Server To enable t
- Page 61 and 62: Recovering from a Forgotten Passwor
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- Page 65 and 66: Data Center Bridging (DCB) 6 On an
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- Page 71 and 72: QoS dot1p Traffic Classification an
- Page 73 and 74: How Enhanced Transmission Selection
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- Page 81 and 82: DCBX Error Messages An error in DCB
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Table 6-8. Example: priority group-
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Skippy812 Dynamic Host Configuratio
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Assigning an IP Address Using DHCP
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Releasing and Renewing DHCP-based I
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Figure 7-5. DHCP Client: Debug Mess
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DHCP Client on a Management Interfa
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FIP Snooping 8 FIP snooping is auto
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Figure 8-1. FIP discovery and login
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The following sections describe how
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FIP Snooping Prerequisites On an Ag
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Figure 8-3. show fip-snooping sessi
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Figure 8-7. show fip-snooping stati
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Table 8-5. show fip-snooping statis
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FIP Snooping Example Figure 8-11 sh
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Internet Group Management Protocol
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IGMP Version 3 Conceptually, IGMP v
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Leaving and Staying in Groups Figur
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Figure 9-6. show ip igmp groups Com
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Interfaces 10 This chapter describe
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Viewing Interface Information You c
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Disabling and Re-enabling a Physica
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The Aggregator supports the managem
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Configuring a Static Route for a Ma
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Port-Based VLANs Port-based VLANs a
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Displaying VLAN Membership To view
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Adding an Interface to an Untagged
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Port channels can contain a mix of
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Figure 10-12. show interface port-c
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Create a Multiple-Range Figure 10-1
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Maintenance Using TDR The time doma
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MTU Size The Aggregator auto-config
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Figure 10-19. show interfaces statu
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Figure 10-21 shows the auto-negotia
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Clearing Interface Counters The cou
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iSCSI Optimization 11 An Aggregator
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If no iSCSI traffic is detected for
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Displaying iSCSI Optimization Infor
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Link Aggregation The Aggregator aut
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LACP Example Figure 12-1 shows an e
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Figure 12-3. show lacp 128 Command
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Figure 12-5. show interfaces port-c
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Layer 2 The Aggregator supports CLI
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Figure 13-1. Redundant NICs with NI
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Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP
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Organizationally Specific TLVs Orga
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TIA Organizationally Specific TLVs
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LLDP-MED Network Policies TLV A net
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LLDP Operation On an Aggregator, LL
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Figure 14-10. Viewing All Informati
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Debugging LLDP The debug lldp comma
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Table 14-8. LLDP System MIB Objects
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Table 14-10. LLDP-MED System MIB Ob
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Port Monitoring 15 The Aggregator s
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Figure 15-2 shows ports 0/25 and 0/
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In Figure 15-4, the host and server
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16 Simple Network Management Protoc
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Dell Force10 supports RFC 4001, Tex
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Figure 16-6 shows the output for an
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Use dot3aCurAggFdbTable to fetch th
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Monitor Port-channels To check the
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The status of the MIBS is as follow
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Stacking Overview 17 An Aggregator
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Stack Master Election The stack ele
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Stacking Port Numbers By default, e
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Cabling Procedure The following cab
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Resetting a Unit on a Stack Use the
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Figure 17-19. show system Command E
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Troubleshooting a Switch Stack Trou
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Figure 17-27. show hardware stack-u
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Stack Unit in Card-Problem State Du
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Upgrading a Single Stack Unit Upgra
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Broadcast Storm Control 18 On the A
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System Time and Date 19 The Aggrega
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Setting the Time Zone Universal tim
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Setting Recurring Daylight Saving T
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Uplink Failure Detection (UFD) Upli
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Figure 20-2. Uplink Failure Detecti
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Show Command Syntax Description sho
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Debugging UFD on an Interface To en
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Upgrade Procedures 21 To view the r
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Debugging and Diagnostics The chapt
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Broadcast, unknown multicast, and D
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Auto-configured VLANs do not exist
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Figure 22-2. show system stack-unit
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Figure 22-3. Taking a Stack Unit Of
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Table 22-2. show hardware Commands
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Recognize an Over-Temperature Condi
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The simple network management proto
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Deciding to Tune Buffers Dell Force
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Figure 22-11. Displaying Buffer Pro
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Sample Buffer Profile Configuration
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Figure 22-14. Displaying Buffer Sta
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Displaying Stack Port Statistics Th
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Figure 22-19. Mini application core
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Standards Compliance This chapter c
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General IPv4 Protocols RFC# Full Na
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