Setup Guide

FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................339
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 339
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................340
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................340
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................. 341
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link........................................................................................................341
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link............................................................................................................341
Impact on Other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 341
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 342
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................342
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................343
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................348
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up........................................................................................................... 350
Flex Hash Capability Overview.................................................................................................................................... 350
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................350
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover....................................................................................................351
Optimizing the Boot Time..............................................................................................................................................351
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled...............................................................351
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism................................................................................352
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................353
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 353
LACP and IPv6 Routing..........................................................................................................................................353
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 354
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................354
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................354
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 354
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................354
Changes to BGP Multipath.................................................................................................................................... 355
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................355
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview............................................................................................... 355
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces......................................................................................356
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 357
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 357
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 358
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 358
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................359
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................360
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 361
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 361
Creating the FRRP Group....................................................................................................................................... 361
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................361
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................363
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................364
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................364
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