Concept Guide

FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................333
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................333
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................334
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................334
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 335
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................335
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................335
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 335
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 336
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................336
Displaying FIP Snooping Information........................................................................................................................... 337
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................342
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................344
Flex Hash Capability Overview.....................................................................................................................................344
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................344
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover...................................................................................................345
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................345
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled..............................................................345
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism................................................................................346
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States.......................................................................... 347
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 347
LACP and IPv6 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 347
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 348
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................348
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................348
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 348
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................348
Changes to BGP Multipath.................................................................................................................................... 349
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................349
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview............................................................................................... 349
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces......................................................................................350
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)....................................................................................................351
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................351
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 352
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 352
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................353
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................354
Implementing FRRP...................................................................................................................................................... 355
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 355
Creating the FRRP Group...................................................................................................................................... 355
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................355
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................357
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................358
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................358
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