Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Managing General System Settings

• Simple mode allows the user to create Aggregation Groups where internal

ports and external ports can be configured in a separate broadcast domain.

• Security-related configurations: dot1x, RADIUS, TACACS+ are allowed

when the switch is operating in Simple Mode.

• All other feature configurations from the CLI/Web/SNMP interfaces are

disabled, and the user does not see any commands/pages/MIBs related to

all other regular features that are available in Normal Mode.

• The hashing algorithm in Simple mode is the same as the default hashing

algorithm in Normal mode. In Normal mode, the default hashing is based

on source MAC and destination MAC address. You cannot change the

hash algorithm in Simple mode. Ports that are already a member of a LAG

are external ports that are shown using the show port-aggregator port

summary command. In Simple mode, you can set the LACP mode on a

group, but not on an individual port. Use the show interface status

command to check the lag status.

• The default management VLAN of the Simple Mode is the same as the

reserved VLAN of the first port aggregator group.

• The switch handles traffic in the following way when in Simple Mode:

Tagged traffic would be dropped if the incoming port is not a member

of the incoming packet’s VLAN.

Untagged traffic is switched and untagged at the egress.

Default VLAN tagged traffic should be switched and egress as

untagged.

Tagged traffic that belongs to a user-created VLAN gets switched in

that VLAN and egresses as tagged.

The following list shows the features that are available in Simple mode. Some

configuration options with the listed features might not be available.

• Management Security (No Telnet Server or Denial of Service)
• File Management
• Port Status and Statistics (Ethernet ports only)
• Port Channel Status

NOTE:

The reserved VLAN ID assigned to a group is also referred to as a

default VLAN.

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