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Zero-Based to Port-Based Address Binding

This section provides an example for binding all ports set with zero-based addressing to port-based

addresses on all blades installed in a Brocade DCX Backbone. Figure 20 illustrates all ports with

port-based addressing.

FIGURE 21 Sequential address binding

Before binding addresses to a port with the portaddress --bind command, disable ports with the

portdisable command. If addresses are already bound and you are trying to change the bound

address, you must first unbind the addresses. Refer to “Unbinding Multiple Ports” on page 100 for

an easy method to unbind multiple ports at once.

Example scripts for binding ports

Following are example scripts that bind all ports on the DCX Backbone. You can copy these scripts

and paste directly into a Telnet Fabric OS command line session. If a port does not exist, an error

message will be reported, but this has no effect.

date

# Slot 1

portaddress --bind 1/0 0000

portaddress --bind 1/1 0100

portaddress --bind 1/2 0200

portaddress --bind 1/3 0300

portaddress --bind 1/4 0400

portaddress --bind 1/5 0500

portaddress --bind 1/6 0600

portaddress --bind 1/7 0700

portaddress --bind 1/8 0800

portaddress --bind 1/9 0900

portaddress --bind 1/10 0A00

portaddress --bind 1/11 0B00

portaddress --bind 1/12 0C00