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Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers....................................................................................................................................415
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload............................................................................................................................. 416
Splitting QSFP Ports to SFP+ Ports............................................................................................................................ 417
Converting a QSFP or QSFP+ Port to an SFP or SFP+ Port...................................................................................418
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 418
Example Scenarios................................................................................................................................................... 418
Conguring wavelength for 10–Gigabit SFP+ optics................................................................................................420
Link Dampening..............................................................................................................................................................420
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 421
Conguration Example of Link Dampening........................................................................................................... 421
Enabling Link Dampening........................................................................................................................................423
Link Bundle Monitoring..................................................................................................................................................424
Using Ethernet Pause Frames for Flow Control........................................................................................................ 425
Enabling Pause Frames........................................................................................................................................... 425
Congure the MTU Size on an Interface....................................................................................................................426
Port-Pipes.......................................................................................................................................................................427
Auto-Negotiation on Ethernet Interfaces................................................................................................................... 427
Setting the Speed of Ethernet Interfaces.............................................................................................................427
Set Auto-Negotiation Options................................................................................................................................429
View Advanced Interface Information.........................................................................................................................429
Conguring the Interface Sampling Size.............................................................................................................. 430
Conguring the Trac Sampling Size Globally........................................................................................................... 431
Dynamic Counters......................................................................................................................................................... 433
Clearing Interface Counters....................................................................................................................................433
23 Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).......................................................................................................... 435
Conguring IPSec .........................................................................................................................................................435
24 IPv4 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 437
IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................438
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................438
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................438
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................438
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................439
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface..........................................................................................440
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview........................................................................................................................... 441
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages...................................................................................441
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface................................................................................................................ 441
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 442
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 442
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................442
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................443
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 443
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................444
ARP..................................................................................................................................................................................444
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 445
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