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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
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Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the interface types supported by the Cisco NX-OS software.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Information About Interfaces, page 1-1
• Virtualization Interfaces, page 1-5
• High Availability for Interfaces, page 1-5
• Licensing Requirements for Interfaces, page 1-5
Information About Interfaces
Cisco NX-OS supports multiple configuration parameters for each of the interface types supported. Most
of these parameters are covered in this guide but some are described in other documents.
Table 1-1 shows where to get further information on the parameters you can configure for an interface.
Table 1-1 Interface Parameters
Feature Parameters Further Information
Basic
parameters
description, duplex, error
disable, flow control, MTU,
beacon
Chapter 2, “Configuring Basic Interface
Parameters” of this document
Layer 2 Layer 2 access and trunk port
settings
Chapter 3, “Configuring Layer 2 Interfaces” of
this document
Layer 2 MAC, VLANs, private
VLANs, Rapid PVST+, Multiple
Spanning Tree, Spanning Tree
Extensions
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Layer 2
Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
Port security Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Security
Configuration Guide, Release 5.x