Dell PowerConnect M8024 User manual

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Dell™ PowerConnect™ M6220/M6348/M8024
User’s Guide
Model M6220/M6348/M8024

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Model M6220/M6348/M8024
June 2009 Rev. A01

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Contents
1 Introduction
Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
MAC Address Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
IPv4 Routing Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
IPv6 Routing Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IPv4 Multicast Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IPv6 Multicast Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
CLI Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2 Using Dell™ OpenManage™ Switch Administrator
Verifying the Out-of-Band (OOB) IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting a Static IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Information Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Device Management Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Telnet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Command Mode Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
User EXEC Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Privileged EXEC Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Global Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Interface Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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3 Cable and Port Information
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Connecting the Switch to a Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Power Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4 Hardware Description
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Physical Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Ventilation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
PowerConnect LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5 Configuring Dell™ PowerConnect™
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Starting the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
General Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Terminal Connection Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Other Configuration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Booting the Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Easy Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
CLI Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
M6220, M6348, and M8024CLI Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Security Management and Password Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Software Download Through TFTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Update Bootcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Boot Menu Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Start Operational Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Change the Baud Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Retrieve Event Log using XMODEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Load New Operational Code Using XMODEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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Display Operational Code Vital Product Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Update Boot Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Reset the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Restore Configuration to Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Password Recovery Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Sample Configuration Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Initial Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Device Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Enabling Remote Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Configuring Secure Management Access (HTTPS) . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6 Configuring System Information
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
System Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
System Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Time Zone Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Summer Time Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Clock Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
SNTP Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
SNTP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
SNTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Managing Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
RAM Log Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Remote Log Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Setting the Operational Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Operational Mode Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Defining IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Domain Name Server (DNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

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ARP Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Running Cable Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Integrated Cable Test for Copper Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Optical Transceiver Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Managing Device Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Access Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Authentication Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Select Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Password Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Local User Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Line Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Enable Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
TACACS+ Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
RADIUS Global Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
RADIUS Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
RADIUS Accounting Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
RADIUS Accounting Server Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
RADIUS Server Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Authorization Network RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Telnet Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
CP Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
CP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
CP Web Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Local User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
User Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Interface Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
CP Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
CP Activation and Activity Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Interface Activation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Interface Capability Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Client Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Client Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
CP Interface Client Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
CP Client Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

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Defining SNMP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
SNMP v1 and v2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
SNMP v3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
SNMP Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
SNMP View Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Access Control Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
SNMPv3 User Security Model (USM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Notification Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Notification Recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
File Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Active Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
File Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
File Upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Copy Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Defining Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Auto Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Defining Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Stacking Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Unit Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Stack Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Supported Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Stack Port Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Stack Port Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Stack Port Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
sFlow Agent Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
sFlow Receiver Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
sFlow Sampler Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
sFlow Poll Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Industry Standard Discovery Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
ISDP Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Cache Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
ISDP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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7 Configuring Switching Information
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Dot1x Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Authenticated Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
IP ACL Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
IP ACL Rule Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
MAC ACL Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
MAC ACL Rule Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
IPv6 Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
IPv6 ACL Rule Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
ACL Bind Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Configuring Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Port Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Protected Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
LAG Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Configuring Traffic Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Flow Based Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Configuring Address Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Static Address Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Dynamic Address Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Configuring GARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
STP Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
STP Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
STP LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
MSTP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
MSTP Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Configuring VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
VLAN Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Double VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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VLAN Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
VLAN LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Bind MAC to VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Bind IP Subnet to VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Protocol Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
GVRP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Configuring Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Aggregating Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
LACP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
LAG Hash Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
LAG Hash Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Managing Multicast Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Multicast Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Bridge Multicast Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Bridge Multicast Forward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
IGMP Snooping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
General IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Global Querier Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
VLAN Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
VLAN Querier Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
MFDB IGMP Snooping Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
MRouter Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
MLD Snooping General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
MLD Snooping Global Querier Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
MLD Snooping VLAN Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
MLD Snooping VLAN Querier Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
MFDB MLD Snooping Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Configuring the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
LLDP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
LLDP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
LLDP Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Creating Link Dependencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Link Dependency Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

8
Dynamic ARP Inspection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
DAI Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
DAI Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
DAI VLAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
DAI ACL Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
DAI ACL Rule Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
DAI Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
DHCP Snooping Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
DHCP Snooping Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
DHCP Snooping VLAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
DHCP Snooping Persistent Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
DHCP Snooping Static Bindings Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
DHCP Snooping Dynamic Bindings Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
DHCP Snooping Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
IP Source Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
DHCP Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
DHCP Relay Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
DHCP Relay Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
DHCP Relay Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
DHCP Relay VLAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Using the Port Aggregator Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Port Configuration Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Group Configuration Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Group VLAN MAC Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
8 Viewing Statistics and Remote Monitoring
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Table Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Etherlike Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
GVRP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
EAP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Utilization Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Counter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

9
RMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
RMON Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
RMON History Control Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
RMON History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
RMON Event Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
RMON Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
RMON Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Ports Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
LAG Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
9 Configuring Routing
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
ARP Create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
ARP Table Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
IP Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
IP Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
OSPF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
OSPF Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Area Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Stub Area Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Area Range Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Interface Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Neighbor Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Neighbor Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Link State Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Virtual Link Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Virtual Link Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Route Redistribution Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Route Redistribution Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

10
IP Helper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
IP Helper Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
IP Helper Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
IP Helper Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
RIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
RIP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
RIP Interface Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
RIP Interface Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
RIP Route Redistribution Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
RIP Route Redistribution Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Router Discovery Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Router Discovery Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Router. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Best Routes Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Route Entry Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Configured Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Route Preferences Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
VLAN Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
VLAN Routing Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
VLAN Routing Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
VRRP Router Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
VRRP Virtual Router Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
VRRP Virtual Router Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Tunnels Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Tunnels Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Loopbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Loopbacks Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Loopbacks Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

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10 Configuring IPv6
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Interface Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
IPv6 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
IPv6 Neighbor Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
DHCPv6 Global Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
DHCPv6 Pool Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
Prefix Delegation Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
DHCPv6 Pool Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
DHCPv6 Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
DHCPv6 Server Bindings Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
DHCPv6 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
OSPFv3 Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
OSPFv3 Area Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
OSPFv3 Stub Area Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
OSPFv3 Area Range Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
OSPFv3 Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
OSPFv3 Interface Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
OSPFv3 Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
OSPFv3 Neighbor Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
OSPFv3 Link State Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
OSPFv3 Virtual Link Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
OSPFv3 Virtual Link Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
OSPFv3 Route Redistribution Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
OSPFv3 Route Redistribution Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
IPv6 Route Entry Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
IPv6 Route Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
IPv6 Route Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
Configured IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

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11 Configuring Quality of Service
Quality of Service Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
Configuring Differentiated Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
DiffServ Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Defining DiffServ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Diffserv Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Class Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
Class Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
Policy Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Policy Class Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Service Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Service Detailed Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
Class of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Mapping Table Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Interface Queue Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Auto VoIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Auto VoIP Global Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Auto VoIP Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
12 Configuring IP Multicast
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Multicast Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Multicast Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Multicast Mroute Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Multicast Static Routes Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Multicast Static Routes Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Multicast Admin Boundary Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Multicast Admin Boundary Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Multicast Route Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Multicast Listener Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
MLD Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
MLD Routing Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
MLD Routing Interface Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
MLD Routing Interface Cache Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
MLD Routing Interface Source List Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

13
MLD Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
MLD Proxy Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
MLD Proxy Configuration Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Interface Membership Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Interface Membership Information—Detailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
DVMRP Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
DVMRP Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
DVMRP Configuration Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
Next Hop Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Prune Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
Route Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Internet Group Management Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
IGMP Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Routing Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Proxy Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
PIM-DM Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
PIM-DM Global Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
PIM-DM Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
PIM-DM Interface Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Candidate RP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707
Static RP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
SSM Range Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
BSR Candidate Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713
BSR Candidate Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
PIM-SM Global Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715
PIM-SM Global Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
PIM-SM Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
PIM-SM Interface Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
Component Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
RP Set Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724
Candidate RP Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Static RP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

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13 Getting Help
Online Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730
Automated Order-Status Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Support Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Dell Enterprise Training and Certification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Problems With Your Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732
Returning Items for Warranty Repair or Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732
Before You Call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732
Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Introduction 15
1
Introduction
This section describes the switch user-configurable features. For a list of all features, see the software
version release notes.
Note: Before proceeding, read the release notes for this product. You can download the release notes from
the Dell Support website, support.dell.com.
The Dell™ PowerConnect™ M6348 is a Stackable Layer 3, Gigabit Ethernet modular switch for use
in the Dell M1000e Chassis
The Dell™ PowerConnect™ M8024 is a non-Stackable Layer 3, 10 Gigabit Ethernet modular switch
for use in the Dell M1000e Chassis.
The Dell™ PowerConnect™ M6220 is a Stackable Layer 3, Gigabit Ethernet modular switch for use
in the Dell M1000e Chassis.
The topics covered in this section include:
•SystemFeatures
• Switching Features
• Routing Features
•IPv6
• Quality of Service Features
•MulticastFeatures
•CLIDocumentation

16 Introduction
System Features
sFlow
sFlow is the standard for monitoring high-speed switched and routed networks. sFlow technology is built
into network equipment and gives complete visibility into network activity, enabling effective
management and control of network resources.
CDP Interoperability
Allows the PowerConnect switch to interoperate with Cisco™ devices running CDP.
Industry Standard Discovery Protocol (ISDP) is a proprietary Layer 2 network protocol which inter-
operates with Cisco network equipment and is used to share information between neighboring devices
(routers, bridges, access servers, and switches).
Auto Config
Auto Config is a software feature which provides for the configuration of a switch automatically when
the device is initialized and no configuration file is found on the switch. Auto Config is accomplished in
three phases:
1.
Configuration or assignment of an IP address for the device
2. Assignment of a TFTP server
3. Obtaining a configuration file for the device from the TFTP server
Captive Portal
Blocks clients from accessing the network until user verification has been established. Verification can be
configured to allow access for both guest and authenticated users. Authenticated users must be validated
against a database of authorized Captive Portal users before access is granted.
SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs
The system logs events with severity codes and timestamps. The events are sent as SNMP traps to a trap
recipient list.
For information about SNMP Alarms and Traps, see "Defining SNTP Global Parameters."
Web Based Management
You can manage the system from any web browser. The switch contains an embedded web server that
serves HTML pages you can use to monitor and configure the system.
Configuration File Download
The switch’s configuration file includes both system-wide and port-specific device configuration data.
You can display configuration files through command-line interface (CLI) commands.
For information about downloading configuration files, see "Downloading Files."

Introduction 17
Software Download
Software download enables storage of backup firmware images. For information about downloading the
software, see "Software Download and Reboot
. "
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
The PowerConnect M6220/M6348/M8024 switches support boot image, firmware, and configuration
upload or download through TFTP.
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
RMON is a standard Management Information Base (MIB) that defines current and historical MAC-
layer statistics and control objects, allowing real-time information to be captured across the entire
network.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Versions 1, 2, and 3
The system is fully manageable using a combination of MIB variables, whose combined values represent
all facets of the system state, and the SNMP protocol to examine and possibly modify these values.
SNMP v1/v2c/v3 over the UDP/IP transport protocol is supported.
Command Line Interface
Command Line Interface (CLI) syntax and semantics conform as much as possible to common industry
practice. CLI is composed of mandatory and optional elements. Context-sensitive help provides format
and value ranges allowed for current commands, and the CLI interpreter provides command and
keyword completion.
Syslog
Syslog is a protocol that allows event notifications to be sent to a set of desired remote servers where they
can be stored, examined, and acted upon.
For information about Syslog, see "Managing Logs."
SNTP
The Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) assures accurate network switch clock time synchronization
up to the millisecond. Time synchronization is performed by a network SNTP server.
For more information about SNTP, see "Configuring SNTP Settings."
Simple Mode
Users with a privilege level of 15 can configure the switch to operate in normal mode or simple mode. By
default, the switch operates in normal mode. When the PowerConnect M6220/M6348/M8024 Series is
operating in simple mode, a limited number of features are available to configure. For features that are
not available in simple mode, their administrative Web pages and CLI commands are unavailable.
For more information about Simple Mode, see "Setting the Operational Mode."

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Port Aggregator
The Port Aggregator feature minimizes the administration required for managing the PowerConnect
M6220/M6348/M8024. When the switch is operating in simple mode, the administrator can map
internal ports to external ports without having to know anything about STP, VLANs, Link Aggregation or
other L2/L3 protocols.
For more information configuring the Port Aggregator feature, see "Using the Port Aggregator Feature."
Switching Features
Low Power on Short Cables
For cables of different length, a different level of power back-off should be set for active link to achieve
good level of signal and stable data transmit. Power back-off level is determined during the auto-
negotiation phase. Users can configure or view the maximum length of cable that is connected to
transceiver.
IPv6 Access Control Lists
An IPv6 ACL consists of a set of rules which are matched sequentially against a packet. When a packet
meets the match criteria of a rule, the specified rule action (Permit/Deny) is taken and the additional
rules are not checked for a match.
Access Control List (ACL) Outbound Support
Supports binding of an acl (IP, MAC, or IPV6) in outbound direction on physical, LAG, and VLAN
interfaces
IP Source Guard (IPSG)
IP source guard (IPSG) is a security feature that filters IP packets based on the source ID. The source ID
may either be source IP address or a source IP address source MAC address pair. IPSG is disabled by
default.
DHCP Snooping
DHCP Snooping is a security feature that monitors DHCP messages between a DHCP client and DHCP
server. It filters harmful DHCP messages and builds a bindings database of (MAC address, IP address,
VLAN ID, port) tuples that are specified as authorized. DHCP snooping can be enabled globally and on
specific VLANs. Ports within the VLAN can be configured to be trusted or untrusted. DHCP servers
must be reached through trusted ports.
DHCP L2 Relay
Permits L3 Relay agent functionality in L2 switched networks.