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Chapter 34 ULPP Configuration 
34.1 Introduction to ULPP 
Each ULPP group has two uplink ports, they are master port and slave port. The port may be a 
physical  port  or  a  port  channel.  The  member  ports  of  ULPP  group  have  three  states: 
Forwarding, Standby, Down. Normally, only one port at the forwarding state, the other port is 
blocked  at  the  Standby  state. When  the  master  port  has  the link  problem,  the  master  port 
becomes down state, and the slave port is siwthed to forwarding state. 
The using scene of ULPP 
The above figure uses the double-uplink network, this is the typical application scene of ULPP. 
SwitchA goes up to SwitchD through SwitchB and SwitchC, port A1 and port A2 are the uplink 
ports. SwitchA configures ULPP, thereinto port A1 is set as the master port, port A2 is set as 
the slave port. When port A1 at forwarding state has the problem, switch the uplink at once, 
port  A2  turns  into  forwarding  state.  After  this,  when  recovering  the  master  port,  if  the 
preemption mode is not configured, port A2 keeps the Forwarding state, port A1 turns into the 
Standby state. 
After the preemption mode is enabled, so as to the master port preempts the slave port when it 
recovered from the problem. For avoiding the frequent uplink switch caused by the abnormity 
problem, the preemption delay mechanism is  imported, and it needs to  wait for some times 
before the master port preempt the slave port. For keeping the continuance of the flows, the 
master port does not process to preempt by default, but turns into the Standby state. 
When configuring ULPP, it needs to specify the VLAN which is protected by this ULPP group 










