Users Guide

Conguring Fibre Channel Interfaces............................................................................................................................. 334
Displaying Fibre Channel Information..............................................................................................................................335
Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Operation.......................................................................................................................337
Conguring the Fibre Channel Port Group in Passthrough Ethernet Mode.................................................................... 339
Displaying Fibre Channel Port Group Mode Information................................................................................................. 339
21 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)..................................................................... 341
Protocol Overview.......................................................................................................................................................... 341
Ring Status.............................................................................................................................................................. 343
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 343
Important FRRP Points............................................................................................................................................ 344
Important FRRP Concepts.......................................................................................................................................345
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 346
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 346
Creating the FRRP Group........................................................................................................................................ 346
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................. 346
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs............................................................................................................347
Setting the FRRP Timers......................................................................................................................................... 348
Clearing the FRRP Counters.................................................................................................................................... 349
Viewing the FRRP Conguration..............................................................................................................................349
Viewing the FRRP Information................................................................................................................................. 349
Troubleshooting FRRP....................................................................................................................................................349
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................349
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................... 350
22 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)...............................................................352
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................352
Congure GVRP.............................................................................................................................................................352
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................353
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................. 353
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface............................................................................................................................354
Congure GVRP Registration.........................................................................................................................................354
Congure a GARP Timer................................................................................................................................................355
23 High Availability (HA)................................................................................................ 356
High Availability on Stacks..............................................................................................................................................356
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 356
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................356
Software Resiliency........................................................................................................................................................357
System Health Monitoring........................................................................................................................................357
Failure and Event Logging........................................................................................................................................ 357
Trace Log................................................................................................................................................................. 357
Core Dumps............................................................................................................................................................. 357
System Log.............................................................................................................................................................. 357
Hot-Lock Behavior......................................................................................................................................................... 357
Component Redundancy................................................................................................................................................358
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