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NVIDIA Networking Documentation

  • Cumulus Linux 5.13 User Guide
    • What's New
      • Cumulus Linux 5.13 Packages
      • Cumulus Linux 5.13 Release Notes
    • Quick Start Guide
    • Installation Management
      • Upgrading Cumulus Linux
      • Installing a New Cumulus Linux Image with ONIE
      • Managing Cumulus Linux Disk Images with ONIE
      • Adding and Updating Packages
      • Zero Touch Provisioning - ZTP
      • Factory Reset
    • System Configuration
      • NVIDIA User Experience - NVUE
        • NVUE Object Model
        • NVUE CLI
        • NVUE Snippets
        • NVUE API
      • Date and Time
        • Setting the Date and Time
        • Network Time Protocol - NTP
        • Precision Time Protocol - PTP
        • Pulse Per Second - PPS
        • Synchronous Ethernet - SyncE
      • Authentication Authorization and Accounting
        • SSH for Remote Access
        • User Accounts
        • Role-Based Access Control
        • Using sudo to Delegate Privileges
        • LDAP Authentication and Authorization
        • TACACS
        • RADIUS AAA
      • Access Control Lists
        • Firewall Rules
        • Access Control List Configuration
      • Services and Daemons in Cumulus Linux
      • Configuring switchd
      • Configuring a Global Proxy
      • In Service System Upgrade - ISSU
      • CLI Configuration
      • System Power
      • Docker with Cumulus Linux
      • Erase all Data from the Switch
    • Layer 1 and Switch Ports
      • Interface Configuration and Management
        • Switch Port Attributes
        • ifplugd
      • Quality of Service
        • RDMA over Converged Ethernet - RoCE
      • DHCP
        • DHCP Relays
        • DHCP Servers
        • DHCP Snooping
      • 802.1X Interfaces
      • Prescriptive Topology Manager - PTM
      • Port Security
    • Layer 2
      • Ethernet Bridging - VLANs
        • VLAN-aware Bridge Mode
        • Traditional Bridge Mode
      • Link Layer Discovery Protocol
      • Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree - STP
      • Storm Control
      • Bonding - Link Aggregation
      • Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation - MLAG
      • LACP Bypass
      • Virtual Router Redundancy - VRR
      • IGMP and MLD Snooping
      • MAC Address Translation
    • Network Virtualization
      • Ethernet Virtual Private Network - EVPN
        • Basic Configuration
        • EVPN Enhancements
        • Inter-subnet Routing
        • EVPN Multihoming
        • EVPN BUM Traffic with PIM-SM
        • Troubleshooting EVPN
        • Configuration Examples
      • VXLAN Devices
      • VXLAN Routing
      • Static VXLAN Tunnels
      • VXLAN Active-active Mode
      • Bridge Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling
      • VXLAN Tunnel DSCP Operations
      • QinQ and VXLANs
    • Layer 3
      • Routing
        • Static Routing
        • Forwarding Table Size and Profiles
        • Route Filtering and Redistribution
        • Policy-based Routing
        • Equal Cost Multipath Load Sharing
        • BGP Weighted Equal Cost Multipath
        • Redistribute Neighbor
      • Border Gateway Protocol - BGP
        • Basic BGP Configuration
        • Optional BGP Configuration
        • Troubleshooting BGP
        • Configuration Example
      • Open Shortest Path First - OSPF
        • Open Shortest Path First v2 - OSPFv2
        • Open Shortest Path First v3 - OSPFv3
        • OSPF Configuration Example
      • VRFs
        • Virtual Routing and Forwarding - VRF
        • Management VRF
      • FRRouting
      • Protocol Independent Multicast - PIM
      • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol - VRRP
      • GRE Tunneling
      • Network Address Translation - NAT
      • Bidirectional Forwarding Detection - BFD
      • Address Resolution Protocol - ARP
      • Neighbor Discovery - ND
    • Monitoring and Troubleshooting
      • Monitoring System Hardware
        • Network Switch Port LED and Status LED Guidelines
      • Understanding the cl-support Output File
        • Troubleshooting Log Files
        • Troubleshooting the etc Directory
      • Troubleshooting Network Interfaces
        • Troubleshoot Layer 1
        • Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers with NVUE
        • Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers with ethtool
      • Network Troubleshooting
        • What Just Happened (WJH)
        • Monitoring System Statistics and Network Traffic with sFlow
        • SPAN and ERSPAN
      • Simple Network Management Protocol - SNMP
        • Configure SNMP
        • Configure SNMP Traps
        • Supported MIBs
        • Troubleshoot SNMP
      • Log Files with NVUE
      • Syslog
      • Single User Mode - Password Recovery
      • Resource Diagnostics
      • ASIC Monitoring
      • Open Telemetry Export
      • gNMI Streaming
      • Monitoring Best Practices
      • switchd Log Message Reference
      • FRRouting Log Message Reference
    • Try It Pre-built Demos
    • Reference Topology
    • Cumulus Linux in a Virtual Environment
    • NVUE Command Reference
    • NVUE Format Reference

Layer 1 and Switch Ports

This section discusses the following layer 1 and switch port configuration:

  • Interface configuration management
  • QoS
  • DHCP
  • 802.1X interface configuration
  • Port Security
  • Prescriptive Topology Manager (PTM)

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