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15 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 276
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 276
Ring Status................................................................................................................................................................277
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................277
Important FRRP Points........................................................................................................................................... 278
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 279
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................280
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 280
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................280
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................281
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................282
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................283
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................283
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................283
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................283
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................. 284
Conguration Checks..............................................................................................................................................284
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................284
16 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)..............................................................................................286
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................................................... 286
Congure GVRP.............................................................................................................................................................287
Related Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................... 287
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................ 288
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................288
Congure GVRP Registration...................................................................................................................................... 288
Congure a GARP Timer.............................................................................................................................................. 289
RPM Redundancy..........................................................................................................................................................289
17 High Availability (HA)................................................................................................................................ 291
Component Redundancy...............................................................................................................................................291
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover........................................................................................................... 291
Synchronization between Management and Standby Units..............................................................................292
Forcing a Stack Unit Failover................................................................................................................................. 292
Disabling Auto-Reboot............................................................................................................................................ 293
Manually Synchronizing Management and Standby Units................................................................................. 293
Pre-Conguring a Stack Unit Slot............................................................................................................................... 293
Removing a Provisioned Logical Stack Unit............................................................................................................... 294
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 294
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................294
Software Resiliency.......................................................................................................................................................295
Software Component Health Monitoring............................................................................................................. 295
System Health Monitoring......................................................................................................................................295
Failure and Event Logging...................................................................................................................................... 295
Hot-Lock Behavior.........................................................................................................................................................296
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