Administrator Guide

Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)

FRRP is a proprietary protocol for that oers fast convergence in a Layer 2 network without having to run the spanning tree protocol

(STP). The resilient ring protocol is an ecient protocol that transmits a high-speed token across a ring to verify the link status. All the

intelligence is contained in the master node with practically no intelligence required of the transit mode.

Important Points to Remember

• FRRP is media- and speed-independent.

• FRRP is a Dell Networking proprietary protocol that does not interoperate with any other vendor.

• Spanning Tree must be disabled on both primary and secondary interfaces before Resilient Ring protocol is enabled.

• A VLAN congured as the control VLAN for a ring cannot be congured as a control or member VLAN for any other ring.

• Member VLANs across multiple rings are not supported in Master nodes.

• If multiple rings share one or more member VLANs, they cannot share any links between them.

• Each ring can have only one Master node; all others are Transit nodes.

Topics:

• clear frrp

• debug frrp

• description

• disable

• interface

• member-vlan

• mode

• protocol frrp

• show frrp

• timer

clear frrp

Clear the FRRP statistics counters.

Syntax

clear frrp [ring-id]

Parameters

ring-id (Optional) Enter the ring identication number. The range is from 1 to 255.

Defaults None

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