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FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................306
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 306
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................ 307
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................307
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 308
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................308
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................308
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 308
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 309
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................309
Displaying FIP Snooping Information............................................................................................................................310
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 315
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................ 317
Flex Hash Capability Overview......................................................................................................................................317
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism........................................................................................................................317
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover....................................................................................................318
Optimizing the Boot Time..............................................................................................................................................318
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled...............................................................318
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................319
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................320
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 320
LACP and IPv6 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 320
BGP Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................. 321
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................ 321
Unexpected Reload of the System.........................................................................................................................321
Software Upgrade.................................................................................................................................................... 321
LACP Fast Switchover.............................................................................................................................................321
Changes to BGP Multipath.....................................................................................................................................322
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................322
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................322
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 323
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 324
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 324
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 325
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 325
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................326
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 327
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................328
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................328
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................328
Conguring the Control VLAN...............................................................................................................................329
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................330
Setting the FRRP Timers.........................................................................................................................................331
Clearing the FRRP Counters...................................................................................................................................331
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