Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

Configuring trunk groups.............................................................................513
Enabling trunking........................................................................................ 513
Disabling trunking........................................................................................514
Displaying trunking information...................................................................514
Trunk Area and Admin Domains.................................................................515
Example of Trunk Area assignment on port domain,index ............ 515
ISL trunking over long-distance fabrics.......................................................516
EX_Port trunking.........................................................................................516
Masterless EX_Port trunking...........................................................517
Supported configurations and platforms for EX_Port trunking........517
Configuring EX_Port trunking..........................................................518
Displaying EX_Port trunking information.........................................518
F_Port trunking............................................................................................518
F_Port trunking for Access Gateway...............................................519
F_Port trunking for Brocade adapters.............................................521
F_Port trunking considerations....................................................... 521
F_Port trunking in Virtual Fabrics....................................................524
Displaying F_Port trunking information....................................................... 525
Disabling F_Port trunking............................................................................525
Enabling the DCC policy on a trunk area....................................................526
Managing Long-Distance Fabrics........................................................................................ 527
Long-distance fabrics overview...................................................................527
Extended Fabrics device limitations............................................................528
Long-distance link modes........................................................................... 528
Configuring an extended ISL...................................................................... 529
Enabling long distance when connecting to TDM devices .............530
Forward error correction on long-distance links..........................................530
Enabling FEC on a long-distance link............................................. 531
Disabling FEC on a long-distance link............................................ 531
Using FC-FC Routing to Connect Fabrics..............................................................................533
FC-FC routing overview.............................................................................. 533
License requirements for FC-FC routing.........................................534
Supported platforms for FC-FC routing...........................................534
Supported configurations for FC-FC routing................................... 535
Network OS connectivity limitations ...............................................535
Fibre Channel routing concepts.................................................................. 535
Proxy devices..................................................................................539
FC-FC routing topologies................................................................540
Phantom domains........................................................................... 540
FC router authentication .................................................................543
Setting up FC-FC routing............................................................................ 544
Verifying the setup for FC-FC routing............................................. 544
Backbone fabric IDs....................................................................................545
Assigning backbone fabric IDs........................................................546
Assigning alias names to fabric IDs............................................................ 546
FCIP tunnel configuration............................................................................547
Inter-fabric link configuration.......................................................................548
Configuring an IFL for both edge and backbone connections........ 548
Configuring EX_Ports on an ICL.....................................................551
FC router port cost configuration.................................................................553
Port cost considerations..................................................................553
Setting router port cost for an EX_Port........................................... 554
Shortest IFL cost configuration................................................................... 554
Configuring shortest IFL cost.......................................................... 556
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