Setup Guide

Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link...........................................................................................................308
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 308
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 309
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................309
Displaying FIP Snooping Information............................................................................................................................310
FCoE Transit Conguration Example........................................................................................................................... 314
15 Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up............................................................................................................ 316
Flex Hash Capability Overview..................................................................................................................................... 316
Conguring the Flex Hash Mechanism........................................................................................................................316
Conguring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover....................................................................................................317
Optimizing the Boot Time..............................................................................................................................................317
Booting Process When Optimized Boot Time Mechanism is Enabled...............................................................317
Guidelines for Conguring Optimized Booting Mechanism.................................................................................318
Interoperation of Applications with Fast Boot and System States...........................................................................319
LACP and IPv4 Routing...........................................................................................................................................319
LACP and IPv6 Routing...........................................................................................................................................319
BGP Graceful Restart............................................................................................................................................. 320
Cold Boot Caused by Power Cycling the System................................................................................................320
Unexpected Reload of the System........................................................................................................................320
Software Upgrade................................................................................................................................................... 320
LACP Fast Switchover............................................................................................................................................320
Changes to BGP Multipath..................................................................................................................................... 321
Delayed Installation of ECMP Routes Into BGP....................................................................................................321
RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Overview................................................................................................ 321
Preserving 802.1Q VLAN Tag Value for Lite Subinterfaces...................................................................................... 322
16 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)................................................................................................... 323
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 323
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 324
Multiple FRRP Rings................................................................................................................................................324
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................325
Important FRRP Concepts..................................................................................................................................... 326
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................327
FRRP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................327
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................327
Conguring the Control VLAN............................................................................................................................... 327
Conguring and Adding the Member VLANs.......................................................................................................329
Setting the FRRP Timers........................................................................................................................................330
Clearing the FRRP Counters..................................................................................................................................330
Viewing the FRRP Conguration...........................................................................................................................330
Viewing the FRRP Information.............................................................................................................................. 330
Troubleshooting FRRP................................................................................................................................................... 331
Conguration Checks...............................................................................................................................................331
Sample Conguration and Topology.............................................................................................................................331
FRRP Support on VLT................................................................................................................................................... 331
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