Dell POWERCONNECT 5524P User manual

Dell PowerConnect
5500 Series
System User Guide
Regulatory Models: PowerConnect 5524, 5524P, 5548, 5548P

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Regulatory Models PC5524, PC5524P, PC5548 and PC5548P
May 2012 A05

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Table of Contents
1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
IP Version 6 (IPv6) Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Stack Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Power over Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Green Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Head of Line Blocking Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3X) . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Virtual Cable Testing (VCT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Auto-Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
MDI/MDIX Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
MAC Address Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
VLAN Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Device Management Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Port Profile (CLI Macro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Protected Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
iSCSI Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Proprietary Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Device Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Device Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4 Stacking Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Stack Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Stack Members and Unit IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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5 Configuring the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuration Work Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Connecting the Switch to the Terminal . . . . . . . . . 56
Booting the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuration Using the Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . 58
6 Advanced Switch Configuration . . . . . . . 63
Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Accessing the Device Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 67
Retrieving an IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Security Management and Password Configuration . . 71
Configuring Login Banners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Startup Menu Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Software Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7 Using Dell OpenManage Administrator. . 83
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Understanding the Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Using the Switch Administrator Buttons . . . . . . . . 87
Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Common GUI Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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GUI Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
8 Network Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
ACL Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Proprietary Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Time Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Dot1x Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
9 Configuring System Information . . . . . . 150
General Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Management Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
File Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Stack Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

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sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
10 Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Jumbo Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Green Ethernet Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Protected Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Port Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
LAG Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
11 Address Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Static Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Dynamic Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
12 GARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
GARP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

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13 Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Spanning Tree Protocol Overview. . . . . . . . . . . 429
Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
STP Port Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
STP LAG Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
14 VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Virtual LAN Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
VLAN Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
LAGs Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Protocol Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Protocol Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
GVRP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Private VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Voice VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
15 Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Link Aggregation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
LACP Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

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LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
16 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Multicast Support Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Bridge Multicast Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Bridge Multicast Forward All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Unregistered Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Multicast TV VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
17 LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
LLDP Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
LLDP Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
LLDP Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
MED Network Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
LLDP MED Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Neighbors Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
18 Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Dynamic ARP Inspection Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Global Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

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Dynamic ARP Inspection List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Dynamic ARP Inspection Entries . . . . . . . . . . . 557
VLAN Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Trusted Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
19 DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
DHCP Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
20 iSCSI Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Optimizing iSCSI Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
iSCSI Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
iSCSI Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Configuring iSCSI Using CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
21 Statistics/RMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Table Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
RMON Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633