Brocade Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide v6.1.2_cee (53-1001258-01, June 2009)
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Document
- Introducing FCoE
- Using the CEE CLI
- In this chapter
- CEE CLI configuration guidelines and restrictions
- Using the CEE command line interface (CLI)
- CEE CLI RBAC permissions
- Accessing the CEE CLI through the console interface or through a Telnet session
- Accessing the CEE CLI from the Fabric OS shell
- Accessing CEE CLI command modes
- Using CEE CLI keyboard shortcuts
- Displaying CEE CLI commands and command syntax
- Using CEE CLI command completion
- CEE CLI command syntax conventions
- Using CEE CLI command output modifiers
- Configuring VLANs Using the CEE CLI
- In this chapter
- VLAN overview
- Ingress VLAN filtering
- VLAN configuration guidelines and restrictions
- Default VLAN configuration
- VLAN configuration procedures
- Enabling and disabling a CEE interface
- Configuring the MTU on a CEE interface
- Creating a VLAN interface
- Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic
- Configuring a CEE interface as a Layer 2 switch port
- Configuring a CEE interface as an access interface or a trunk interface
- Configuring VLAN classifier rules
- Configuring VLAN classifier groups
- Associating a VLAN classifier group to a CEE interface
- Clearing VLAN counter statistics
- Displaying VLAN information
- Configuring the MAC address table
- Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP using the CEE CLI
- In this chapter
- STP overview
- RSTP overview
- MSTP overview
- STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions
- Default STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration
- STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration procedures
- STP, RSTP, and MSTP-specific configuration procedures
- STP and RSTP-specific configuration procedures
- RSTP and MSTP-specific configuration procedures
- MSTP-specific configuration procedures
- 10-Gigabit Ethernet CEE interface-specific configuration
- Global STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related configuration procedures
- Clearing STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related information
- Displaying STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related information
- Configuring Link Aggregation using the CEE CLI
- Configuring LLDP using the CEE CLI
- Configuring ACLs using the CEE CLI
- In this chapter
- ACL overview
- Default ACL configuration
- ACL configuration guidelines and restrictions
- ACL configuration procedures
- Creating a standard MAC ACL and adding rules
- Creating an extended MAC ACL and adding rules
- Modifying a MAC ACL
- Removing a MAC ACL
- Reordering the sequence numbers in a MAC ACL
- Applying a MAC ACL to a CEE interface
- Applying a MAC ACL to a VLAN interface
- Clearing MAC ACL counters
- Displaying MAC ACL information
- Configuring QoS using the CEE CLI
- Configuring FCoE using the Fabric OS CLI
- Administering the switch
- Configuring RMON using the CEE CLI
- Index

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LLDP configuration guidelines and restrictions
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LLDP configuration guidelines and restrictions
Follow these LLDP configuration guidelines and restrictions when configuring LLDP.
NOTE
DCBX configuration simply involves configuring DCBX-related TLVs to be advertised. Detailed
information is provided in the “LLDP configuration procedures” on page 85.
• There are three levels of LLDP configuration:
NOTE
Entering the protocol lldp command from global configuration mode globally enables LLDP and
DCBX with default values.
- Global configuration—After entering the protocol lldp command from global configuration
mode, you are in LLDP configuration mode which is designated with the switch(conf-lldp)#
prompt. Using the commands in this mode, you can globally change LLDP attributes on all
interfaces.
- Profile configuration—From the LLDP configuration mode, you can enter the profile
keyword to create different profiles for different neighbors (such as server and switch) and
then apply an individual profile to a single port or to multiple ports.
- Interface-level configuration—From the interface level, you can enter the lldp command to
access LLDP-related configuration keywords. The LLDP interface-level configuration
overrides the global configuration. For example, when you apply an LLDP profile on an
interface, the profile configuration overrides the global LLDP configuration.
• Brocade’s implementation of LLDP supports Brocade-specific TLV exchange in addition to the
standard LLDP information.
• Mandatory TLVs are always advertised.
• The exchange of LLDP link-level parameters is transparent to the other Layer 2 protocols. The
LLDP link-level parameters are reported by LLDP to other interested protocols.
Default LLDP configuration
Table 14 lists the default LLDP configuration.
TABLE 14 Default LLDP configuration
Parameter Default setting
LLDP global state Enabled
LLDP receive Enabled
LLDP transmit Enabled
Transmission frequency of LLDP updates 30 seconds
Hold time for receiving devices before discarding 120 seconds
DCBX-related TLVs to be advertised dcbx-tlv










