Administrator Guide

Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................304
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................304
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 305
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................305
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................305
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 305
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 306
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................306
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................307
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 312
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................ 314
Flex Hash Capability Overview..................................................................................................................................... 314
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism........................................................................................................................314
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover....................................................................................................315
Optimizing the Boot Time............................................................................................................................................. 315
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled...............................................................315
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................316
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States...........................................................................317
LACP and IPv4 Routing........................................................................................................................................... 317
LACP and IPv6 Routing........................................................................................................................................... 317
BGP Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................. 318
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................ 318
Unexpected Reload of the System.........................................................................................................................318
Software Upgrade.................................................................................................................................................... 318
LACP Fast Switchover.............................................................................................................................................318
Changes to BGP Multipath..................................................................................................................................... 319
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP....................................................................................................319
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................ 319
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 320
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)....................................................................................................321
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................321
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 322
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................322
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................323
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 324
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................325
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 325
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................325
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................326
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................327
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................328
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................328
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................328
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................328
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