Web Management Guide-R01

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Chapter 13
| Basic Administration Protocols
Ethernet Ring Protection Switching
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Once the ring has been activated, the configuration of the control VLAN cannot
be modified. Use the Admin Status parameter to stop the ERPS ring before
making any configuration changes to the control VLAN.
Node State – Refer to the parameters for the Show page.
Node Type – Shows ERPS node type as one of the following:
None – Node is neither Ring Protection Link (RPL) owner nor neighbor.
(This is the default setting.)
RPL Owner – Specifies a ring node to be the RPL owner.
Only one RPL owner can be configured on a ring. The owner blocks
traffic on the RPL during Idle state, and unblocks it during Protection
state (that is, when a signal fault is detected on the ring or the
protection state is enabled with the Forced Switch or Manual Switch
commands on the Configure Operation page).
The east and west connections to the ring must be specified for all ring
nodes. When this switch is configured as the RPL owner, the west ring
port is automatically set as being connected to the RPL.
RPL Neighbor – Specifies a ring node to be the RPL neighbor.
The RPL neighbor node, when configured, is a ring node adjacent to
the RPL that is responsible for blocking its end of the RPL under normal
conditions (i.e., the ring is established and no requests are present in
the ring) in addition to the block at the other end by the RPL Owner
Node. The RPL neighbor node may participate in blocking or
unblocking its end of the RPL, but is not responsible for activating the
reversion behavior.
Only one RPL owner can be configured on a ring. If the switch is set as
the RPL owner for an ERPS domain, the west ring port is set as one end
of the RPL. If the switch is set as the RPL neighbor for an ERPS domain,
the east ring port is set as the other end of the RPL.
The east and west connections to the ring must be specified for all ring
nodes. When this switch is configured as the RPL neighbor, the east
ring port is set as being connected to the RPL.
Note that is not mandatory to declare a RPL neighbor.
Major Ring – The ERPS instance used for sending control packets.
This switch can support multiple instances. However, ERPS control packets can
only be sent on one instance. This parameter is used to indicate that the current
ring instance is a secondary ring, and to specify the major ring instance that will
be used to send ERPS control packets.
The Ring Protection Link (RPL) is always the west port. So the physical port on a
secondary ring must be the west port. In other words, if a ring has two physical