Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001761-01, June 2010)

Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide v
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DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL
Ingress VLAN filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
VLAN configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Default VLAN configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
VLAN configuration and management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Enabling and disabling an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Configuring the MTU on an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a VLAN interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Disabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic . . . . . . . .36
Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port . . . . . . .36
Configuring an interface port as an access interface . . . . . . . .36
Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . 37
Disabling a VLAN on a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring an interface port as a converged interface . . . . . .38
Disabling a VLAN on a converged interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Configuring a VLAN classifier rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring MAC address-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . .39
Deleting a VLAN classifier rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating a VLAN classifier group and adding rules . . . . . . . . . . 40
Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port . . . . .40
Clearing VLAN counter statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configuring the MAC address table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses . . . . 41
Adding static addresses to the MAC address table. . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 5 Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP using the CEE CLI
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
STP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Configuring STP on Brocade FCoE hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
RSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring MSTP on Brocade FCoE hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions . . .49
Default STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50