Administrator Guide
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Configurations..............................................................243
Enabling LLDP............................................................................................................................. 244
Advertising TLVs..........................................................................................................................244
Viewing the LLDP Configuration................................................................................................246
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Agents.......................................................246
Configuring LLDPDU Intervals....................................................................................................247
Configuring a Time to Live.........................................................................................................248
Debugging LLDP.........................................................................................................................248
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)................................................................................................................249
Overview..................................................................................................................................... 250
VLT Terminology......................................................................................................................... 251
Configure Virtual Link Trunking.................................................................................................. 251
Verifying a VLT Configuration.................................................................................................... 256
Additional VLT Sample Configurations...................................................................................... 259
Troubleshooting VLT...................................................................................................................261
22 FC Flex IO Modules............................................................................................263
FC Flex IO Modules...........................................................................................................................263
Understanding and Working of the FC Flex IO Modules.................................................................263
FC Flex IO Modules Overview.................................................................................................... 263
FC Flex IO Module Capabilities and Operations........................................................................265
Guidelines for Working with FC Flex IO Modules......................................................................265
Processing of Data Traffic...........................................................................................................267
Installing and Configuring the Switch........................................................................................268
Interconnectivity of FC Flex IO Modules with Cisco MDS Switches......................................... 271
Fibre Channel over Ethernet for FC Flex IO Modules......................................................................272
NPIV Proxy Gateway for FC Flex IO Modules.................................................................................. 273
NPIV Proxy Gateway Configuration on FC Flex IO Modules ....................................................273
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities.....................................................................273
Configuring an NPIV Proxy Gateway..........................................................................................277
Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information............................................................................ 284
23 Upgrade Procedures......................................................................................... 290
Get Help with Upgrades...................................................................................................................290
24 Debugging and Diagnostics............................................................................ 291
Debugging Aggregator Operation....................................................................................................291
All interfaces on the Aggregator are operationally down..........................................................291
Broadcast, unknown multicast, and DLF packets switched at a very low rate........................ 292
Flooded packets on all VLANs are received on a server........................................................... 292
Software show Commands..............................................................................................................293
Offline Diagnostics........................................................................................................................... 295