Administrator Guide
15 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 273
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 273
Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................274
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................274
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 275
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 276
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 277
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................277
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 277
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 278
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................279
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................280
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................280
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................280
Viewing the FRRP Information.............................................................................................................................. 280
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 281
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................281
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................281
FRRP Support on VLT...................................................................................................................................................282
Example Scenario.................................................................................................................................................... 283
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................284
16 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................285
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 285
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 286
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................286
Enabling GVRP Globally.................................................................................................................................................287
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................ 287
Congure GVRP Registration.......................................................................................................................................287
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 288
RPM Redundancy..........................................................................................................................................................288
17 High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................................... 290
Component Redundancy..............................................................................................................................................290
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover.......................................................................................................... 290
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units...............................................................................291
Forcing a Stack Unit Failover.................................................................................................................................. 291
Specifying an Auto-Failover Limit.......................................................................................................................... 292
Disabling Auto-Reboot............................................................................................................................................ 292
Manually Synchronizing Management and Standby Units................................................................................. 292
Pre-Conguring a Stack Unit Slot............................................................................................................................... 292
Removing a Provisioned Logical Stack Unit............................................................................................................... 292
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 293
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................293
Software Resiliency....................................................................................................................................................... 293
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