Users Guide

Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................303
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................303
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 304
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................304
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................304
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 304
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 305
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................305
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................306
FCoE Transit Conguration Example............................................................................................................................ 311
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................ 313
Flex Hash Capability Overview..................................................................................................................................... 313
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism........................................................................................................................313
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover....................................................................................................314
Optimizing the Boot Time..............................................................................................................................................314
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled...............................................................314
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................315
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States...........................................................................316
LACP and IPv4 Routing...........................................................................................................................................316
LACP and IPv6 Routing...........................................................................................................................................316
BGP Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................. 317
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System.................................................................................................317
Unexpected Reload of the System.........................................................................................................................317
Software Upgrade.................................................................................................................................................... 317
LACP Fast Switchover.............................................................................................................................................317
Changes to BGP Multipath..................................................................................................................................... 318
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP....................................................................................................318
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................ 318
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces.......................................................................................319
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 320
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................320
Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................321
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 321
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................322
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 323
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................324
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................324
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................324
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................325
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................326
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 327
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 327
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 327
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................327
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