Concept Guide

15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................353
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 353
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................353
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................355
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack................................................................................................................................... 357
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 357
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................357
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................357
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................358
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................359
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 359
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................359
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................359
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 359
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 360
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................360
Displaying FIP Snooping Information............................................................................................................................361
FCoE Transit Conguration Example.......................................................................................................................... 366
16 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................368
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 368
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................368
Enabling FIPS Mode......................................................................................................................................................369
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................369
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status..................................................................................................................................... 369
Disabling FIPS Mode......................................................................................................................................................370
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).................................................................................................... 371
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................371
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 372
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................372
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 373
Important FRRP Concepts......................................................................................................................................374
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................375
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................375
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................375
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 376
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs....................................................................................................... 377
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 378
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 378
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 378
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................378
Troubleshooting FRRP...................................................................................................................................................379
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................379
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................ 379
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