Reference Guide

21 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP).....................................................386
Protocol Overview............................................................................................................................386
Ring Status...................................................................................................................................388
Multiple FRRP Rings.................................................................................................................... 389
Important FRRP Points................................................................................................................390
Important FRRP Concepts.......................................................................................................... 391
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................... 392
FRRP Configuration.......................................................................................................................... 392
Creating the FRRP Group........................................................................................................... 393
Configuring the Control VLAN................................................................................................... 393
Configuring and Adding the Member VLANs............................................................................ 394
Setting the FRRP Timers............................................................................................................. 395
Clearing the FRRP Counters.......................................................................................................396
Viewing the FRRP Configuration................................................................................................396
Viewing the FRRP Information................................................................................................... 396
Troubleshooting FRRP......................................................................................................................396
Configuration Checks.................................................................................................................396
Sample Configuration and Topology...............................................................................................397
22 GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)................................................399
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................... 399
Configure GVRP................................................................................................................................399
Related Configuration Tasks...................................................................................................... 400
Enabling GVRP Globally................................................................................................................... 400
Enabling GVRP on a Layer 2 Interface............................................................................................. 401
Configure GVRP Registration........................................................................................................... 401
Configure a GARP Timer.................................................................................................................. 402
23 High Availability (HA).....................................................................................403
High Availability on Stacks................................................................................................................403
Hitless Behavior................................................................................................................................ 403
Graceful Restart................................................................................................................................404
Software Resiliency.......................................................................................................................... 404
System Health Monitoring..........................................................................................................404
Failure and Event Logging..........................................................................................................404
Trace Log.................................................................................................................................... 404
Core Dumps................................................................................................................................404
System Log..................................................................................................................................405
Hot-Lock Behavior........................................................................................................................... 405
Component Redundancy.................................................................................................................405
Automatic and Manual Stack Unit Failover................................................................................405