Dell POWERCONNECT 5548P User manual

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DELL CONFIDENTIAL – PRELIMINARY 9/11/12 – FOR PROOF ONLY
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Dell PowerConnect
5500 Series
System User Guide
Regulatory Models: PowerConnect 5524, 5524P, 5548, 5548P

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Table of Contents
1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
IP Version 6 (IPv6) Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Stack Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Power over Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Green Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Head of Line Blocking Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3X) . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Virtual Cable Testing (VCT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Auto-Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
MDI/MDIX Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
MAC Address Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Layer 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
VLAN Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Quality of Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Device Management Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Port Profile (CLI Macro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Protected Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
iSCSI Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Proprietary Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Device Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Device Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4 Stacking Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Stack Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Stack Members and Unit IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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5 Configuring the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuration Work Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Connecting the Switch to the Terminal . . . . . . . . . 59
Booting the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Configuring the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Configuration Using the Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . 61
6 Advanced Switch Configuration . . . . . . . 67
Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Accessing the Device Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 71
Retrieving an IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Security Management and Password Configuration . . 75
Configuring Login Banners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Startup Menu Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Software Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7 Using Dell OpenManage Administrator. . 87
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Understanding the Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using the Switch Administrator Buttons . . . . . . . . 91
Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Common GUI Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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GUI Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
8 Network Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
ACL Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Proprietary Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Time Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Dot1x Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
9 Configuring System Information . . . . . . 155
General Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Management Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
File Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Stack Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

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sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
10 Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Jumbo Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Green Ethernet Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Protected Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Port Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
LAG Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Port Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
11 Address Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Static Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Dynamic Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
12 GARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
GARP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
GARP Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

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13 Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Spanning Tree Protocol Overview. . . . . . . . . . . 436
Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
STP Port Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
STP LAG Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
14 VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Virtual LAN Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
VLAN Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
LAGs Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Protocol Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Protocol Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
GVRP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Private VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Voice VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
15 Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Link Aggregation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
LACP Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

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LAG Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
16 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Multicast Support Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Global Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Bridge Multicast Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Bridge Multicast Forward All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Unregistered Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Multicast TV VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
17 LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
LLDP Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
LLDP Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
LLDP Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
MED Network Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
LLDP MED Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Neighbors Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
18 Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Dynamic ARP Inspection Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Global Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563