Command Line Reference Guide

Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)

Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP) is supported on the S5000 switch.

FRRP is a proprietary protocol for that offers fast convergence in a Layer 2 network without having to run the Spanning

Tree Protocol. The Resilient Ring Protocol is an efficient protocol that transmits a high-speed token across a ring to

verify the link status. All the intelligence is contained in the master node with practically no intelligence required of the

transit mode.

Important Points to Remember

• FRRP is media- and speed-independent.

• FRRP is a Dell Networking proprietary protocol that does not interoperate with any other vendor.

• Spanning Tree must be disabled on both primary and secondary interfaces before Resilient Ring protocol is

enabled.

• A VLAN configured as the control VLAN for a ring cannot be configured as a control or member VLAN for any

other ring.

• Member VLANs across multiple rings are not supported in Master nodes.

• If multiple rings share one or more member VLANs, they cannot share any links between them.

• Each ring can have only one Master node; all others are Transit nodes.

clear frrp

Clear the FRRP statistics counters.

S5000

Syntax

clear frrp [ring-id]

Parameters

ring-id (Optional) Enter the ring identification number. Range: 1 to 255.

Defaults none

Command Modes EXEC

Command History

Version 9.0(1.3) Introduced on the S5000.

Usage

Information

Executing this command without the optional ring-id command clears the statistics

counters on all the available rings. FTOS requires a command line confirmation before the

command executes. This commands clears the following counters:

451