Administrator Guide

Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System................................................................................................ 503
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 503
Congure Redundant Pairs.......................................................................................................................................... 504
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................506
Far-End Failure Detection............................................................................................................................................. 507
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................508
Conguring FEFD....................................................................................................................................................509
Enabling FEFD on an Interface.............................................................................................................................. 509
Debugging FEFD.......................................................................................................................................................510
26 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)...................................................................................................... 512
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview.............................................................................................................................................512
Protocol Data Units.................................................................................................................................................. 512
Optional TLVs..................................................................................................................................................................513
Management TLVs................................................................................................................................................... 513
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................. 515
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs.........................................................................................................................515
Congure LLDP.............................................................................................................................................................. 519
Related Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................519
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 519
LLDP Compatibility...................................................................................................................................................519
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations.............................................................................................519
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................520
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 520
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports.........................................................................................................................521
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports...........................................................................................521
Advertising TLVs.............................................................................................................................................................521
Viewing the LLDP Conguration................................................................................................................................. 522
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents..................................................................................... 523
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 524
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode....................................................................................................................524
Conguring the Time to Live Value............................................................................................................................. 525
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................526
Relevant Management Objects....................................................................................................................................527
27 Microsoft Network Load Balancing.......................................................................................................... 532
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................532
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................532
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................533
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................533
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 533
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................533
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 534
28 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)......................................................................................... 535
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................535
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