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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
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Chapter 1 Overview
Information About Interfaces
This section includes the following topics:
• Ethernet Interfaces, page 1-2
• Management Interface, page 1-3
• Port-Channel Interfaces, page 1-4
• vPCs, page 1-4
• Subinterfaces, page 1-4
• VLAN Network Interfaces, page 1-4
• Loopback Interfaces, page 1-4
• Tunnel Interfaces, page 1-4
Ethernet Interfaces
Ethernet interfaces include access ports, trunk ports, private VLAN hosts and promiscuous ports, and
routed ports.
This section includes the following topics:
• Access Ports, page 1-3
• Trunk Ports, page 1-3
• Private VLAN Hosts and Promiscuous Ports, page 1-3
• Routed Ports, page 1-3
Layer 3 medium, IPv4 and IPv6
addresses
Chapter 4, “Configuring Layer 3 Interfaces” of
this document
bandwidth, delay, IP routing,
VRFs
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing
Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Multicast
Routing Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
Port Channels channel group, LACP Chapter 6, “Configuring Port Channels” of this
document
vPCs Virtual port channels Chapter 7, “Configuring vPCs” of this document
Tunnels GRE Tunneling Chapter 8, “Configuring IP Tunnels” of this
document
Security Dot1X, NAC, EOU, port security Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Security
Configuration Guide, Release 5.x
FCoE Beginning with Cisco NX-OS
Release 5.2(1), you can run Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on
the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Switch
Cisco NX-OS FCoE Configuration Guide for
Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco MDS 9500
Table 1-1 Interface Parameters (continued)
Feature Parameters Further Information