Concept Guide

15 FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................................348
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................ 348
Ensure Robustness in a Converged Ethernet Network............................................................................................ 348
FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges..............................................................................................................................350
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack...................................................................................................................................352
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 352
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................352
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 352
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................353
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................354
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 354
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link.......................................................................................................354
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................354
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 354
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 355
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................355
Displaying FIP Snooping Information...........................................................................................................................356
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 361
16 FIPS Cryptography...................................................................................................................................363
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 363
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................363
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 364
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................364
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................364
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 365
17 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 366
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................366
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 367
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................367
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................368
Important FRRP Concepts.....................................................................................................................................369
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................370
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................370
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................370
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................371
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................372
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................ 373
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................. 373
Viewing the FRRP Conguration........................................................................................................................... 373
Viewing the FRRP Information...............................................................................................................................373
Troubleshooting FRRP...................................................................................................................................................374
Conguration Checks.............................................................................................................................................. 374
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................ 374
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