Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000440-01, June 2007)

14 iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000440-01

Configuring the GbE interface

VERIFYING THE NETWORK CONNECTION

After you assign the IP address and (optionally) add static routes, use the portCmd command to

ping a remote host. This ensures that data packets can be sent to the remote host over the

(Ethernet) network.

NOTE

The GbE port number <port_number> below is entered geX; where X is from 0 through 7.

For example ge1 (see Figure 8 on page 10).

To ping a remote location

1. Connect and log in to the switch.

2. Enter the portCmd - -ping command with the -s operand, where the slot and port numbers are

the configured GbE interface:

switch:admin> portcmd -ping 3/ge0 -s 30.0.127.30 -d 30.0.0.1

Pinging 30.0.0.1 from ip interface 30.0.127.30 on 3/ge0 with 64 bytes of data

Reply from 30.0.0.1: bytes=64 rtt=0ms ttl=255

Ping Statistics for 30.0.0.1:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Loss = 0 ( 0 percent loss)

Min RTT = 0ms, Max RTT = 0ms Average = 0ms

ADDING ARP ENTRIES (OPTIONAL)

ARP entries for the IP interfaces are created automatically when you verify the network connectivity

using the ping command. This command configures additional address resolution protocol (ARP)

entries.

NOTE

The GbE port number <port_number> below is entered geX; where X is from 0 through 7.

For example ge1 (see Figure 8 on page 10).

To automatically add ARP entries

1. Connect and log in to the switch.

2. Enter the portCfg arp add command as follows:

switch:admin> portcfg arp 3/ge0 add 30.0.30.11 00:0F:1F:69:99:88

Operation Succeeded

3. Verify the entry use the portShow command as follows:

switch:admin> portshow arp 3/ge0

Slot: 3 Port: ge0

IP Address Mac Address Flags

-----------------------------------------------------------

30.0.30.214 00:c0:dd:07:81:13 Resolved

30.0.0.1 00:11:93:58:fd:7f Resolved

30.0.30.11 00:0f:1f:69:99:88 Permanent Resolved