Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1. Overview
- 2. SPB Terminology
- 3. SPB Support Topologies
- 4. UNI Types
- 5. Summary of SPB Features and ProductRelease Matrix
- 6. SPB Feature and License Matrix
- 7. Scaling
- 8. Migration & Upgrades
- 9. Field Introduction & Support Specifications
- 10. VSP 7000 – Fabric Interconnect
- 11. ISIS Metrics - Optional
- 12. ISIS Accept Policy
- 13. ISIS External Metric
- 14. SPB over L2/L3 networks
- 15. Fabric Attach
- 16. SPB SMLT BEB Design Best Practices
- 17. SPB NNI SMLT – migrating existing SMLT network to SPB
- 18. IS-IS TLV
- 19. SPB Best Practices
- 20. SPB Configuration
- 20.1 SPB Configuration
- 20.1.1 ERS 8800 – Converting from CLI to ACLI
- 20.1.2 SPB and IS-IS Core Configuration
- 20.1.3 SPB NNI Interface Configuration
- 20.1.4 CFM Configuration
- 20.1.5 VSP 7000 – Fabric Interconnect Mesh
- 20.1.6 SMLT – Normal IST
- 20.1.7 SMLT - Virtual IST (vIST)
- 20.1.8 L2VSN Configuration
- 20.1.9 SwitchedUNI Configuration
- 20.1.10 Flex UNI Switched Configuration
- 20.1.11 Transparent UNI Configuration
- 20.1.12 Private VLAN (ETREE) Configuration
- 20.1.13 L3VSN Configuration
- 20.1.14 L3VSN – leaking routes between VRF’s
- 20.1.15 IP Shortcuts
- 20.1.16 IP Shortcut– Suppress IST Network
- 20.1.17 IP Shortcuts – leaking routes between GRT and VRF
- 20.1.18 IP Shortcuts – redistribution of ISIS and OSPF
- 20.1.19 Inter-VSN Routing
- 20.1.20 IPv6 Shortcuts
- 20.1.21 SPB Multicast Configuration
- 20.1.22 Multicast 239.255.255/24 – UPnP Filtering
- 20.1.23 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Configuration
- 20.1.24 CFM Configuration Example – 7.1.1.x or higher
- 20.1.25 Fabric Extend Configuration
- 20.1.26 ONA: Assigning a Static IP address to the Open Network Adapter
- 20.1.27 Fabric Extend over Routed Infrastructure using VRF to interconnect to routed network
- 20.1.28 Fabric Extend over Routed Infrastructure using GRT to interconnect to routed network
- 20.1.29 Fabric Extend over E-LAN/VPLS (L2) network using Layer 3 over Layer 2 tunneling using VSP 4000
- 20.1.30 Fabric Extend over E-LAN/VPLS (L2) network using Layer 3 over Layer 2 tunneling with VSP8000 orVSP7200
- 20.1.31 Fabric Extend over E-LAN/VPLS (L2) network using VLAN Tunnels
- 20.1.32 Fabric Attach Configuration
- 20.1.33 Identity Engines – Attribute Details
- 20.1.34 Fabric Attach Base Configuration – Adding a FA Proxy and FA Server
- 20.1.34.1 Fabric Attach – Adding a Platform VLAN on FA Server forManagement VLAN
- 20.1.34.2 Fabric Attach – Adding a L2VSN Service
- 20.1.34.3 Fabric Attach – Adding a L3VSN Service
- 20.1.34.4 Fabric Attach - Adding a WLAN 9100 FA Client with EAPDevice authentication via Identity Engines
- 20.1.34.5 Fabric Attach – Changing the FA authentication key
- 20.1.35 Fabric Attach Proxy Standalone
- 20.2 Using EDM
- 20.1 SPB Configuration
- 21. VLAN and ISID Restrictions using TACACS+via Identity Engines
- 22. Configuration Examples
- 22.1 SPB – Core Setup
- 22.1.1 Configuration
- 22.1.1.1 Configuration Mode
- 22.1.1.2 Auto Save
- 22.1.1.3 VSP 7000 – Rear Port Mode
- 22.1.1.4 Option: Change Spanning Tree mode to MSTP
- 22.1.1.5 System Name
- 22.1.1.6 Option – Configure out-of-band management interface
- 22.1.1.7 Enable VLACP Globally
- 22.1.1.8 IST Configuration – SMLT Cluster switch 4001 & 4002, 9001 & 9002 and 8005 & 8006
- 22.1.1.9 IS-IS and SPB Global Configuration
- 22.1.1.10 IS-IS SPB Interface Configuration
- 22.1.1.11 Remove default VLAN from all SPB ports
- 22.1.1.12 Other best practice items – VLACP and discard untagged frames
- 22.1.1.13 IST Configuration – SMLT Cluster switch 7001 & 7002
- 22.1.1.14 ISIS L1-metric – Optional
- 22.1.1.15 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Configuration
- 22.1.1.16 QoS
- 22.1.2 Configuration using EDM – Using 8005 as an example
- 22.1.3 Verify Operations
- 22.1.1 Configuration
- 22.2 SMLT Configuration
- 22.3 SPB L2 VSN Configuration
- 22.4 VSP 7000 & ERS 4800 – In-band Management via L2VSN
- 22.5 Multicast over L2VSN
- 22.6 Inter VSN Routing
- 22.7 Inter-ISID Configuration
- 22.7.1 VRF configuration
- 22.7.2 Verification
- 22.8 SPB L3 VSN – SMLT
- 22.9 Extending L3VSN to the VSP 7000 Cluster via L2VSN
- 22.10 Multicast over L3VSN
- 22.11 SPB IP Shortcuts
- 22.12 Multicast over IP Shortcuts
- 22.1 SPB – Core Setup
- 23. Restrictions and Limitations
- 24. Reference Documentation
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10. VSP 7000 – Fabric Interconnect
The VSP 7000 by default operates in Fabric Interconnect stacking mode. The VSP 7000 can be provisioned
in rear-port mode where the rear Fabric Interconnect ports will be treated as multiple virtual ports over the
4 physical Fabric Interconnect Ports. When in rear-port mode, the VSP 7000 operates in a standalone
mode.
Two modes of operation are available in rear-port mode, standard or Shortest Path Bridging (SPB).
Standard mode allows all the switch standard features minus SPB across the rear ports, i.e. Spanning Tree,
OSPF, RIP, etc. In SPB mode, in the 10.2 release Shortest Path Bridging is supported while in the
10.3 both SPB and SMLT are supported. Hence, when FI Mesh is required, rear-port mode with operational
state of SPB needs to be provisioned. The diagram shows the FI port speeds available depending if
Standard or SPB operational state is enabled.
To provide greater plug n ’play capability over the virtual ports when rear-port mode is enabled, LACP link
aggregation and VLAN tagging are automatically enabled. This ensures that multiple virtual ports which
may run within a single cable or if multiple FI cables are run in parallel that all virtual ports are automatically
treated as one link. This simplifies any protocol adjacency such as IS-IS or OSPF. When you issue rear-
ports mode all virtual ports will have their LACP state set to true, the LACP Admin Key to 4095 and LACP
hashing mode be set to advance.
Color Physical Fabric Interconnect Port Rear Port Mode Throughput Ports
Black FI Up (right) Top Standard 240Gbps (x3 40GbE)
34, 35, 36
SPB 240Gbps (x3 40GbE)
Red FI Down (left) Top Standard 240Gbps (x3 40GbE) 38, 39, 40
SPB 160Gbps (x2 40GbE) 38, 39
Blue FI Up (right) Bottom Standard 80Gbps (x1 40GbE)
33
SPB 80Gbps (x1 40GbE)
Blue FI Down (left) Bottom Standard 80Gbps (x1 40GbE)
37
SPB 80Gbps (x1 40GbE)
Figure 7 – FI Rear Port Details
In FI mesh, it is recommended to connect “like” color fabrics interconnect ports together, i.e. red
port to an adjacent switch red port to get maximum possible throughput. You can connect any
color ports together, i.e. a red port to a blue port, however, the port throughput will drop to the
lower of two ports.
Rear-port interfaces 33-40 are regular Ethernet 40 GbE interfaces. For some of the rear-ports
multiple such 40 GbE interfaces are bundled to
g
ether. As the rear-ports constitute a backplane