Layer 1

Configuration
ExtremeXOS™ Operation and
Configuration, Version 12.1

© 2008 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. ExtremeXOS Operation and Configuration, Version 12.1. Part number DOC-00919.
 Student Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

Configure port speed and duplex.
Define the link aggregation feature and its benefits.
Describe the different link aggregation algorithms.
Configure dynamic address-based link aggregation.
Verify the link aggregation configuration.
Describe the Extreme Discovery Protocol.
Enable the Link Layer Discovery Protocol.

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configure slot <slot_number>
unconfigure slot <slot_number>
clear slot <slot_number>

Configuring Slot Parameters

I/O Modules are plug and play.
Configure the type of I/O module
installed per slot using CLI
commands:
• configure slot
<slot_number> module [G48T
| G48P| G24X | 10G4X ]
Unconfigure module type:
• unconfigure slot
<slot_number>
Remove all slot configuration:
• clear slot <slot_number>
When configuring ports, use the
following numbering format:
• slot:port_number
• Examples:
2:4
Represents port 4 for the I/O module
installed in slot 2
3:6-8,11
Represents ports 6 through 8 and 11
on slot 3

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enable ports <port_list>
disable ports <port_list>
configure ports 1 auto off speed 100 duplex full

Configurable Port Parameters

Ports on the switch can be configured in the following ways:

Enabling and disabling individual ports
Enabling and disabling auto-negotiation
Configuring the port speed
Configuring half- or full-duplex mode
Creating link aggregation groups on multiple ports
Enabling or disabling discovery protocols
Configuring QoS on a port-by-port basis

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show ports <port_list> configuration
show ports <port_list> information
configure ports 1 auto-polarity

Auto-Negotiation, Speed, and Duplex

Flow control supported

Auto-Negotiation
• Enabled by default
• May be disabled
Duplex and speed can be
manually configured for:
• Copper 10/100/1000
Gigabit Ethernet
• Gigabit port is always full-duplex
Auto polarity can be on or off on
copper ports

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enable jumbo-frame ports [all | <ports list>]
configure jumbo-frame size <jumbo_frame_mtu>
configure ip-mtu <mtu_size> vlan <vlan name>

Jumbo Frames

Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames that are between 1523 and 9216
bytes.
Extreme Networks switches support switching and routing of
jumbo frames at wire speed on all ports.
Switch supports jumbo frames and IP fragmentation.

Jumbo Ethernet Frame with VLAN Tag

6 Bytes 6 Bytes 4 Bytes 2 Bytes 1501 to 9194 Bytes 4 Bytes
Destination Source Type / Data
802.1Q Tag CRC
MAC MAC Length (Payload / Padding)
1523 Bytes Minimum. 9216 Bytes Maximum.

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 Link Aggregation

Allows a switch to use multiple ports as a single logical port.

Allows increased bandwidth and resilience.
Supported on all Extreme Networks switches.
• May also be compatible with third-party “trunking” or sharing algorithms.
• Must be enabled at both ends.
• Same algorithm should be selected on both ends of the LAG.

IP Network / IP Network /
Intranet Intranet

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 Link Aggregation (Continued…)

Although the traffic travels down

multiple physical links, it can be TX TX TX TX
considered as a single logical
link.
Received traffic is re-combined
and seen as a single traffic
stream.

TX TX TX TX

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 Link Aggregation Algorithms

Address-Based Link Aggregation

• Packets are distributed based on layer 2, layer 2 and 3 or layer 2, 3, and 4
source and destination header information.
• A physical link is used for all matching packets to ensure that session
packets arrive in sequence.
• Provides the most even distribution of packets.
Traffic

? ? ? ?
TX TX TX TX

TX TX TX TX

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 Link Aggregation Algorithms (Continued…)

Port-Based Link Aggregation

• The outgoing port is selected depending on the port the traffic arrives on.
• Drawback - Can lead to an uneven distribution of packets.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Ports
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Link Aggregation to next switch

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 Dynamic Link Aggregation

Uses IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol to:

• Dynamically determine if link aggregation is possible.
• Automatically enables and configures link aggregation.
• Dynamically adds or deletes ports from the link aggregation group.
Ports are active up to the limit of the hardware. Additional ports are
standby.
When an active port fails, the standby port is dynamically added to
the LAG.
The group is only enabled when LACP detects that the other end is
also using LACP.
LACP does not control the packet distribution algorithm.

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 Link Aggregation Capabilities

Note: On this slide, the first limitation number applies to

BlackDiamond 8800 and Summit X450 series; the second
applies to the BlackDiamond 10808 and BlackDiamond 12804.
A static LAG can include a maximum of 8 or 16 ports.
A dynamic LAG can include a maximum of 16 or 32 ports; out of
these up to 8 or 16 can be active links and the remaining 8 or 16 are
standby links.
The maximum number of LAGs is 32 or 128.
BlackDiamond 10808 and BlackDiamond 8800 switches support
Cross-Module Link Aggregation (CMLA).
Ports in the group do not need to be contiguous.

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 Link Aggregation Capabilities Continued

BlackDiamond 10808 and BlackDiamond 12804 supports port-based

(default) and address-based link aggregation but cannot specify L2
or L3 for the address-based algorithm.
BlackDiamond 8800 series and Summit X450 series switches only
support address-based link aggregation algorithm.
Broadcast, multicast, or unknown unicast packet are treated
differently on different switch models.

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 Enabling Link Aggregation

To enable dynamic link aggregation:

• enable sharing <port> grouping <port_list>
{algorithm [port-based |
address-based {L2 | L3 | L3_L4}]} {lacp}
The first port in the group is configured to be the logical port.
• The logical port represents the entire port group for port configuration.
Port-based only supported on BlackDiamond 10808 and 12804.
L2 or L3 address-based only supported on the BlackDiamond 8800
series and Summit X450 switches.
L3_L4 address-based plus IP port only supported on the
Summit X450a, X450e switches and BlackDiamond 8800 a-series
and e-series modules.

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 Configuring Dynamic Link Aggregation

To set the LACP priority:

• configure sharing lacp system-priority 3
• Lowest priority controls LACP.
• Priority 0 removes setting.
• MAC address is used as default priority.
Create the LAG with one port then add or delete ports dynamically.
To dynamically add ports to a link aggregation group:
• configure sharing <port> add ports <port_list>
• Ports must be enabled to be added.

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 Verifying Link Aggregation Settings
VLAB-R1-X450-24x.1 # show lacp
LACP Up : Yes
LACP Enabled : Yes
System MAC : 00:04:96:27:bd:48
LACP PDUs dropped on non-LACP ports : 0

Lag Actor Actor Partner Partner Partner Agg

Sys-Pri Key MAC Sys-Pri Key Count
------------------------------------------------------------------
8 1 0x03f0 00:04:96:27:b6:5f 2 0x03f0 4

Logical Port Priority Partner Priority

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 Verifying Link Aggregation Settings (Continued…)
VLAB-R1-X450-24x.1 # show lacp 8

Lag Actor Actor Partner Partner Partner Agg

Sys-Pri Key MAC Sys-Pri Key Count
------------------------------------------------------------------
8 1 0x03f0 00:04:96:27:b6:5f 2 0x03f0 4

Port list:

Member Port Rx Sel Mux Actor Partner

Port Priority State Logic State Flags Port
------------------------------------------------------------------
8 0 Current Selected Collect-Dist A-GSCD-- 1008
9 0 Current Selected Collect-Dist A-GSCD-- 1009
10 0 Current Selected Collect-Dist A-GSCD-- 1010
11 0 Current Selected Collect-Dist A-GSCD-- 1011
==================================================================
Actor Flags: A-Activity, T-Timeout, G-Aggregation,
S-Synchronization, C-Collecting, D-Distributing,
F-Defaulted, E-Expired

Member Ports Partner Ports

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show ports sharing

Verifying Link Aggregation Ports

VLAB-R1-X450-24x.1 # show ports sharing

Load Sharing Monitor

Config Current Agg Ld Share Ld Share Agg Link Link Up
Master Master Control Algorithm Group Mbr Status transit
==================================================================
8 8 LACP L2 8 Y A 1
L2 9 Y A 1
L2 10 Y A 1
L2 11 Y A 1
Logical Ports
==================================================================
Link Status: A-Active, D-Disabled, R-Ready, NP-Port not
present, L-Loopback
Load Sharing Algorithm: (L2) Layer 2 address based, (L3_L4)
Layer 3 address and Layer 4 port based
Default algorithm: L2
Number of load sharing trunks: 1
SummitX450-24t.2 #

Algorithm Member Ports

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show lacp member-port <port_list>
show lacp counters

Verifying Link Aggregation Ports (Continued…)

VLAB-R1-X450-24x.1 # show lacp member-pot 9

Member Port Rx Sel Mux Actor Partner

Port Priority State Logic State Flags Port
------------------------------------------------------------------
9 0 Current Selected Collect-Dist A-GSCD-- 1009
==================================================================
Actor Flags: A-Activity, T-Timeout, G-Aggregation, S-
Synchronization, C-Collecting, D-Distributing, F-Defaulted, E-
Expired

SummitX450-24t.1 # show lacp counters

LACP PDUs dropped on non-LACP ports : 0

LACP Bulk checkpointed msgs sent : 0
LACP Bulk checkpointed msgs recv : 0
LACP PDUs checkpointed sent : 0
LACP PDUs checkpointed recv : 0

Lag Member Rx Rx Drop Rx Drop Rx Drop Tx Tx

Group Port Ok PDU Err Not Up Same MAC Sent Ok Xmit Err
---------------------------------------------------------------
8 8 64 0 0 0 63 0
9 54 0 0 0 82 0
10 32 0 0 0 33 0
11 31 0 0 0 42 0
==================================================================

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 Disabling Link Aggregation

To disable sharing:
• disable sharing <logical_port>
To dynamically delete ports from a link aggregation group:
• configure sharing <logical_port> delete ports <port_list>
To clear the counters associated with LACP:
• clear lacp counters

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# enable mirrroring to port <port> {tagged}

Port Mirroring Feature

Enables traffic associated with

one or more switch ports to be
copied to the monitor ports on Monitor Port
the switch. Orange
VLAN
What can be monitored:
• Physical Port
• VLAN
• Virtual Port (Physical Port +
VLAN)
Up to 16 ports can be
mirrored.
Analyzer,
Up to 16 ports can be Sentriant,or
designated as monitor ports. RMON probe

Frames with errors are not mirrored.

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# enable edp ports <port_list>
Extreme Discovery Protocol (EDP)
Proprietary Extreme Networks L2
protocol used for:
- Information gathering
- Exchanging topology information
Use the enable edp ports all command to activate EDP on all ports.
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EDP Packet:
• Switch ID
• Switch software version
• Switch IP address
• Switch VLAN-IP information
• Switch Port Number
 LLDP

LLDP devices periodically transmit information to its neighbors in a

message called a LLDP Data Unit (LLDPDU).
• Each message consist of elements called Type Length Value.
TLVs include: Chassis ID, Port ID, Port Description, System name,
System capabilities, System description, VLAN ID, etc.
Information is available as SNMP MIB objects.
Provides multivendor device discover for IP telephones, wireless
devices, network elements.
LLDP advertisement SNMP advertisement

IP Phone

MIB Database

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 Configuring LLDP

To enable the tx or rx of LLDP TLVs:

• enable lldp ports [all | <port_list>] {receive-only |
transmit-only}
To modify LLDP behavior:
• configure lldp transmit-interval <seconds>
• configure lldp transmit-hold <hold>
• configure lldp transmit-delay [ auto | <seconds>]
To enable or disable TLV advertisements:
• configure lldp ports [all | <port_list>] [advertise | no-
advertise] system-name
To verify the configuration and operation:
• show lldp {port [all | <port_list>]} {neighbors}
{detailed}

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 Verifying LLDP
VLAB-R1-X450-24x.1 # show lldp port 8 detail

LLDP transmit interval : 30 seconds

LLDP transmit hold multiplier : 4 (used TTL = 120 seconds)
LLDP transmit delay : 2 seconds
LLDP SNMP notification interval : 5 seconds
LLDP reinitialize delay : 2 seconds
LLDP-MED fast start repeat count : 3

LLDP Port Configuration

Port Rx Tx SNMP Optional enabled transmit TLVs

Mode Mode Notification LLDP 802.1 802.3 MED AvEx
==================================================================
8 Enabled Enabled -- -ND-- --- ---- ---- ----
VLAN: Default ----- --- ---- ---- ----
VLAN: voice ----- --- ---- ---- ----
AvEx Call-Server: IP Address(es)=10.0.0.20, 10.0.0.21
AvEx File-Server: IP Address(es)=10.0.0.20, 10.0.0.21, 10.0.0.22
AvEx 802.1Q Framing: Mode=tagged
MED LCI: Location Format=ECS ELIN based
1234567890
MED Policy: Application=voice
VLAN=voice, DSCP=40
==================================================================
Notification: (L) lldpRemTablesChange,
(M) lldpXMedTopologyChangeDetected …

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 Summary

You should now be able to:

Configure port speed and duplex.
Define the link aggregation feature and its benefits.
Describe the different link aggregation algorithms.
Configure dynamic address-based link aggregation.
Verify the link aggregation configuration.
Describe the Extreme Discovery Protocol.
Enable the Link Layer Discovery Protocol.

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 Lab

Turn to the Layer 1 Configuration Lab

in the ExtremeXOS™ Operations and Configuration - Lab Guide Rev. 12.1
and complete the hands-on portion of this module.

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Review Questions

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