Compressing Configuration Files - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

configuration is considered valid. The comma-separated list is not required to be separated by spaces in between the ranges. You can
associate multicast MAC or hardware addresses to an interface range and VLANs by using the mac-address-table static
multicast-mac-address vlan vlan-id output-range interface command.

Compressing Configuration Files

You can optimize and reduce the sizes of the configuration files.
You can compress the running configuration by grouping all the VLANs and the physical interfaces with the same property. Support to
store the operating configuration to the startup config in the compressed mode and to perform an image downgrade without any
configuration loss are provided.
You can create groups of VLANs using the interface group command. This command will create nonexistent VLANs specified in a
range. On successful command execution, the CLI switches to the interface group context. The configuration commands inside the group
context will be the similar to that of the existing range command.
Two existing exec mode CLIs are enhanced to display and store the running configuration in the compressed mode.
show running-config compressed and write memory compressed
The compressed configuration will group all the similar looking configuration thereby reducing the size of the configuration. For this release,
the compression will be done only for interface related configuration (VLAN & physical interfaces)
The following table describes how the standard and the compressed configuration differ:
Table 40. Standard and Compressed Configurations
int vlan 2 int vlan 3
no ip address tagged te 1/1/1/1
no shut no ip address
shut
int te 1/1/1/1 int te 1/1/1/2
no ip address no ip address
switchport shut
shut
Dell# show running-config
<snip>
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/1
no ip address
switchport
shutdown
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/2
int vlan 4 int vlan 5
tagged te 1/1/1/1 tagged te 1/1/1/1
no ip address no ip address
shut shut
int te 1/1/1/3 int te 1/1/1/4
no ip address no ip address
shut shut
Dell# show running-config compressed
<snip>
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/1
no ip address
switchport
shutdown
!
Interface group TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/2/1 – 1/1/2/4 ,
TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/7/1
int vlan 100 int vlan 1000
no ip address ip address 1.1.1.1/16
no shut no shut
int te 1/1/5/1 int te 1/1/6/1
no ip address ip address 2.1.1.1/16
shut shut
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