Configuration restrictions and guidelines, Configuration procedure, Table 1 – H3C Technologies H3C WX5500E Series Access Controllers User Manual

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Table 1 Actions to take upon detection of a loop condition

Port type

Actions
No protective action is configured

A protective action is configured

Access port

Place the receiving interface in controlled

mode. The interface discards all incoming

packets, but still forwards outgoing packets.

Generate traps and log messages.

Delete all MAC address entries of the

interface.

Perform the configured protective
action.

Generate traps and log messages.

Delete all MAC address entries of the

interface.

Hybrid or trunk
port

Generate traps and log messages.

If loopback detection control is enabled,

place the receiving interface in controlled
mode. The interface discards all incoming

packets, but still forwards outgoing packets.

Delete all MAC address entries of the

interface.

Generate traps and log messages.

If loopback detection control is

enabled, take the configured

protective action on the interface.

Delete all MAC address entries of the

interface.

Configuration restrictions and guidelines

To use loopback detection on an Ethernet interface, you must enable the function both globally and

on the interface.

To disable loopback detection on all interfaces, run the undo loopback-detection enable command
in system view.

To enable a hybrid or trunk port to take the administratively specified protective action, you must use
the loopback-detection control enable command on the port.

When you change the link type of an Ethernet interface by using the port link-type command, the

switch removes the protective action configured on the interface. For more information about the
port link-type command, see Layer 2—LAN Switching Command Reference.

Configuration procedure

To configure loopback detection:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enable global loopback

detection.

loopback-detection enable

By default, global loopback
detection is disabled.

3.

Enable multi-port loopback
detection.

loopback-detection
multi-port-mode enable

Optional.
By default, multi-port loopback
detection is disabled, and the

device can only detect single-port
loopback.

4.

Set the loopback detection

interval.

loopback-detection interval-time
time

Optional.
The default setting is 30 seconds.

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