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12-6 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Enabling and Disabling ISL Trunking
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Enabling and Disabling ISL Trunking
You can enable or disable Brocade ISL Trunking for a single port or for an entire switch.When you
execute the commands portCfgTrunkPort or switchCfgTrunk to update the trunking configuration,
the ports for which the configuration applies are disabled and reenabled with the new trunk
configuration. As a result, traffic through those ports could be disrupted.
To enable or disable ISL Trunking on one port
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the portCfgTrunkPort command. The format is:
The following example enables trunking on slot 1, port 3:
To enable or disable ISL Trunking for all of the ports on a switch
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the switchCfgTrunk command. The format is:
Mode 1 enables and mode 0 disables ISL Trunking for all ports on the switch.
The following example enables trunking all ports in the switch.
portcfgtrunkport [slotnumber/]portnumber mode
slotnumber Specifies the number of the slot in which the port blade containing the port is
located (this operand only required for switches with slots such as the SilkWorm
12000, 24000, and 48000 directors).
portnumber Specifies the number of the port on which you want to enable or disable trunking.
mode Enables (1) or disables (0) trunking on the specified port.
switch:admin> portcfgtrunkport 1/3 1
done.
switch:admin>
switchcfgtrunk mode
switch:admin> switchcfgtrunk 1
Committing configuration...done.
switch:admin>