Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001189-01, April 2009)

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Access Gateway trunking
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Assigning a Trunk Area
You must enable trunking on all ports to be included in a Trunk Area before you can create a Trunk
Area. Use the portCfgTrunkPort or switchCfgTrunk command to enable trunking on a port or on all
ports of a switch.
Issue the porttrunkarea command to assign a static TA on a port or port trunk group, to remove a
TA from a port or group of ports in a trunk, and to display masterless trunking information.
You can remove specified ports from a TA using the porttrunkarea --disable command; however
this command does not unassign a TA if its previously assigned Area_ID is the same address
identifier (Area_ID) of the TA unless all the ports in the trunk group are specified to be unassigned.
For more information on the porttrunkarea command, enter help porttrunkarea or see the Fabric
OS Command Reference. F_Port trunking will not support shared area ports 16 - 47 on the Brocade
FC8-48 and FC4-48C blades.
The following table shows an example of the Address Identifier.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Disable the ports to be included in the TA.
3. Enable TA for ports 13 and 14 on slot 10 with port index of 125:
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --enable 10/13-14 -index 125
Trunk index 125 enabled for ports 10/13 and 10/14
4. Show the TA port configuration (ports still disabled):
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --show enabled
Slot Port Type State Master TI DI
-------------------------------------------
10 13 -- -- -- 125 125
10 14 -- -- -- 125 126
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5. Enable ports 13 and 14:
switch:admin> portenable 10/13
switch:admin> portenable 10/14
6. Show the TA port configuration after enabling the ports:
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --show enabled
Slot Port Type State Master TI DI
-------------------------------------------
10 13 F-port Master 10/13 125 125
10 14 F-port Slave 10/13 125 126
TABLE 8 Address identifier
23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Domain ID Area_ID Port ID
Address Identifier