Westermo RedFox Series - Manual (Page 322)

Westermo OS Management Guide
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a) b)
Super−ring
Sub−ring Sub−ring
Super−ring
RiCo RiCo RiCo RiCo RiCo
FRNT
FRNT
FRNT
FRNT
Figure 15.1: Ring Coupling with two FRNT rings: (a) single uplinks, and (b) multi-
ple uplinks per Ring Coupling node.
and ’2’, and port ’3’ as uplink.
Example
example:/#> configure
example:/config/#> frnt
Activating FRNT0 with default settings, remember to change the ring ports!
Invalid settings: No ring ports defined
example:/config/frnt-1/#> ring-ports 1,2
example:/config/frnt-1/#> no focal-point
example:/config/frnt-1/#> coupling
Creating new instance 1
example:/config/frnt-1/coupling-1/#> uplink 3
example:/config/frnt-1/coupling-1/uplink-eth3/#> priority 100
example:/config/frnt-1/coupling-1/uplink-eth3/#> leave
Starting Fast Redundant Network Topology v0 daemon ......... [ OK ]
Starting Ring bridging/dual-homing daemon .................. [ OK ]
Configuration activated.
Remember "copy run start" to save to flash (NVRAM).
example:/#>
Here, the uplink priority was given the value ”100” to make it the preferred active
uplink, the default is 128, for further details see
section 15.1.3 .
It is of course possible to connect multiple sub-rings to one super-ring. The up-
links from the sub-rings can be connected to individual nodes in the super-ring
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