Users Guide

Conguring Fibre Channel Interfaces............................................................................................................................. 336
Displaying Fibre Channel Information..............................................................................................................................337
Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Operation.......................................................................................................................339
Conguring the Fibre Channel Port Group in Passthrough Ethernet Mode..................................................................... 341
Displaying Fibre Channel Port Group Mode Information..................................................................................................341
21 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).....................................................................343
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................343
Ring Status.............................................................................................................................................................. 345
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................ 345
Important FRRP Points............................................................................................................................................ 346
Important FRRP Concepts....................................................................................................................................... 347
Implementing FRRP....................................................................................................................................................... 348
FRRP Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 348
Creating the FRRP Group........................................................................................................................................ 348
Conguring the Control VLAN................................................................................................................................. 348
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs........................................................................................................... 349
Setting the FRRP Timers......................................................................................................................................... 350
Clearing the FRRP Counters.....................................................................................................................................351
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...............................................................................................................................351
Viewing the FRRP Information..................................................................................................................................351
Troubleshooting FRRP.................................................................................................................................................... 351
Conguration Checks................................................................................................................................................351
Sample Conguration and Topology............................................................................................................................... 352
22 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)...............................................................354
Important Points to Remember......................................................................................................................................354
Congure GVRP............................................................................................................................................................ 354
Related Conguration Tasks.....................................................................................................................................355
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................................................. 355
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface........................................................................................................................... 356
Congure GVRP Registration.........................................................................................................................................356
Congure a GARP Timer................................................................................................................................................ 357
23 High Availability (HA)................................................................................................ 358
High Availability on Stacks..............................................................................................................................................358
Hitless Behavior............................................................................................................................................................. 358
Graceful Restart.............................................................................................................................................................358
Software Resiliency........................................................................................................................................................359
System Health Monitoring........................................................................................................................................359
Failure and Event Logging........................................................................................................................................ 359
Trace Log................................................................................................................................................................. 359
Core Dumps............................................................................................................................................................. 359
System Log..............................................................................................................................................................359
Hot-Lock Behavior......................................................................................................................................................... 359
Component Redundancy................................................................................................................................................360
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