Dell POWERCONNECT 5524P User manual

Dell PowerConnect

5500 Series

System User Guide

Regulatory Models: PowerConnect 5524, 5524P, 5548, 5548P

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you

make better use of your system.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to

hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed.

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damage, personal injury, or death.

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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

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