Dell N4000 Series User manual

Dell Networking

N2000, N3000, and N4000

Series Switches

User’s Configuration

Guide

Regulatory Models: N2024, N2024P,

N2038,N2048P, N3024, N3024F, N3024P,

N3048, N3048P, N4032, N4032F, N4064,

N4064F

Notes and Cautions

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your computer.

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January 2014 Rev. A01

Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Additional Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

2 Switch Feature Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Multiple Management Options . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Log Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Management of Basic Network Information. . . . 57

IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Switch Database Management Templates. . . . . 58

Automatic Installation of Firmware and

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 60

Remote Monitoring (RMON) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Stacking Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

High Stack Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 62

Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 62

Hot Add/Delete and Firmware

Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Configurable Access and Authentication

Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Password-Protected Management Access . . . . 63

Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 63

TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

RADIUS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Port Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X) . . . . . . . . . 66

MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 66

Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

MAC-Based Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

IP Source Guard (IPSG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge). . . . . . . . 68

Green Technology Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Energy Detect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Energy Efficient Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Power Utilization Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Contents 5

Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus Features . . . . . . . . 70

Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Plus

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

PoE Plus Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 71

Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 71

Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 71

Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching. . . . . . . . 72

Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 73

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . 74

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for

Media Endpoint Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Connectivity Fault Management

(IEEE 802.1ag) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 74

Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)

Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Enhanced Transmission Selection . . . . . . . . . 75

Cisco Protocol Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 77

VLAN Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

MAC-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 77

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GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Double VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard. . . . . . 80

BPDU Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

RSTP-PV and STP-PV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP) . . . . . . 81

Multi-Switch LAG (MLAG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Table

Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 82

BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

IP Helper and UDP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Routing Information Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 84

Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 84

IPv6 Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Contents 7

IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Differentiated Services (DiffServ) . . . . . . . . . 86

Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Auto Voice over IP (VoIP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Internet Small Computer System Interface

(iSCSI) Optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

MAC Multicast Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . 89

Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 89

IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Dense Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Sparse Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Protocol Independent Multicast—

Source Specific Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 90

MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 90

3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Dell Networking N2000 Series Switch Hardware . . . 91

N2000 Series Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

8Contents

N2000 Series Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

N2000 LED Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Power Consumption for N2000 Series PoE

Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Dell Networking N3000 Series Switch

Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

N3000 Series Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

N3000 Series Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Power Consumption for N3000 Series PoE

Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Dell Networking N4000 Series Switch

Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

N4000 Back Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Switch MAC Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch

Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . 127

Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Switch Administrator Buttons and

Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using the Device View Port Features. . . . . . . 132

Contents 9

Using the Device View Switch Locator

Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

5 Using the Command-Line Interface. . . . 135

Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . . 135

Console Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Telnet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using the Question Mark to Get Help . . . . . . . 139

Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 140

Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Command Output Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 141

Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 141

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

7 Setting the IP Address and Other

Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 147

IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 147

What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 147

Why Is Basic Network Information

Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

How Is Basic Network Information

Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

10 Contents

What Is Out-of-Band Management and

In-Band Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . 152

Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN IP

Address). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default

Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Domain Name Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 160

Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . 161

Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port . . . . 161

Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default

VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Configuring Static Network Information on

the OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring Static Network Information on

the Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring and Viewing Additional Network

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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