Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.0.0 (53-1000606-01, April 2008)

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Chapter
16
Routing Traffic
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following information:
•About routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
•Viewing FSPF routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
•Configuring dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
•Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
•Configuring the link cost for a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
About routing
For Fabric OS 6.0.0, the supported routing policies are:
• Port-based routing
Port-based routing assigns a “static route,” in which the path chosen for traffic never changes.
• Exchanged-based routing.
Exchange-based routing policy is the default. Exchange-based routing policy always employs
“dynamic path selection,” in which the software chooses a path based on current traffic
conditions.
See the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for more information.
To optimize port-based routing, the dynamic load sharing feature (DLS) can be enabled to balance
the load across the available output ports within a domain. Exchange-based routing requires the
use of DLS; when this policy is in effect, you cannot disable the DLS feature.
Use the Routing tab of the Switch Administration window to view and modify routing information.
Figure 93 on page 194 shows the Routing tab.