Concept Guide

Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................350
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................350
Impact on Other Software Features...................................................................................................................... 351
FIP Snooping Restrictions....................................................................................................................................... 351
Conguring FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................................351
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................352
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................357
16 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................359
Flex Hash Capability Overview.................................................................................................................................... 359
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism.......................................................................................................................359
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover...................................................................................................360
Optimizing the Boot Time.............................................................................................................................................360
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled..............................................................360
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................361
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States..........................................................................362
LACP and IPv4 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 362
LACP and IPv6 Routing.......................................................................................................................................... 362
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 363
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................363
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................363
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 363
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................363
Changes to BGP Multipath.................................................................................................................................... 364
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP...................................................................................................364
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview............................................................................................... 364
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces......................................................................................365
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 366
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................366
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 367
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................367
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................368
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................369
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................370
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................370
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................370
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 370
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................372
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 373
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 373
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 373
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................373
Troubleshooting FRRP...................................................................................................................................................374
Conguration Checks.............................................................................................................................................. 374
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................ 374
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