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.

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