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Chapter 3: Configuring the FN100
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The following conditions can be displayed in the Trunking State field:
• Broken — Trunking is enabled, but the port in non-operational.
• Closed (or Oneway) — Trunking is enabled, and the Trunking
Protocol is attempting to establish a trunk connection.
• Heldown — Trunking is enabled, but the trunk connection was
rejected. After a short time-out period, another attempt is
automatically initiated to establish a good trunk connection.
• Joined — Trunking is enabled, and the Trunking Protocol has
established a good trunk connection.
• Off — Trunking is not enabled.
• Perturbed — Trunking is enabled, and a good trunk connection is
established. However, the forwarding of data packets is temporarily
suspended to allow for a change in Trunk Group membership.
3.9 DEFINING AND DELETING VIRTUAL SWITCHES
The FN100 can be configured as a collection of virtual switches. You can
define up to four virtual switch groups, and assign any of the FN100 ports
to one of these virtual switch groups.
Use the LCM command,
vswitch, to create, modify, and delete virtual
switches. The full syntax of the command is as follows:
vswitch <SW#> <EDIT_MODE> <PORTS>>
The options for SW# include:
• sw1 - Virtual switch 1
• sw2 - Virtual switch 2
• sw3 - Virtual switch 3
• sw4 - Virtual switch 4
The options for EDIT_MODE include:
• append - Appends ports to an existing virtual switch
• create - Creates a virtual switch consisting of specified ports (default)
• remove - Removes ports from an existing virtual switch