Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Platform and Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Preface
- About This Document
- Basic Layer 2 Features
- Supported basic Layer 2 features
- About port regions
- Enabling or disabling the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Management MAC address for stackable devices
- MAC learning rate control
- Changing the MAC age time and disabling MAC address learning
- Static MAC entry configuration
- VLAN-based static MAC entries configuration
- Clearing MAC address entries
- Flow-based MAC address learning
- Enabling port-based VLANs
- Defining MAC address filters
- Monitoring MAC address movement
- SNMP MAC-notification trap support
- Displaying and modifying system parameter default settings
- Cut-through switching
- Dynamic buffer allocation for QoS priorities for FastIron X Series devices
- Default queue depth limits for FastIron X Series devices
- Configuring the total transmit queue depth limit for FastIron X Series devices
- Configuring the transmit queue depth limit for a given traffic class on FastIron X Series devices
- Removing buffer allocation limits on FastIron X Series devices
- Buffer profile configuration
- Default queue depth limits for FastIron X Series devices
- Dynamic buffer allocation for FCX and ICX devices
- Configuring buffer profiles
- Configuring buffer profiles with qd-descriptor and qd-buffer commands on FCX and ICX devices
- Configuring user-configurable buffer profiles on FCX and ICX devices
- Buffer and descriptor maximum and default allocation values
- Displaying the user-configurable buffer profile configuration on FCX and ICX devices
- Configuring buffer sharing on FCX and ICX devices
- Removing buffer allocation limits on FCX and ICX
- Buffer profiles for VoIP on FastIron stackable devices
- Configuring buffer profiles
- Buffer allocation for ICX 6650
- Remote Fault Notification on 1Gbps fiber connections
- Link Fault Signaling for 10Gbps Ethernet devices
- Jumbo frame support
- Packet InError Detection
- Metro Features
- Supported metro features
- Topology groups
- Metro Ring Protocol
- Metro Ring Protocol configuration notes
- MRP rings without shared interfaces (MRP Phase 1)
- MRP rings with shared interfaces (MRP Phase 2)
- Ring initialization
- How ring breaks are detected and healed
- Master VLANs and customer VLANs
- Metro Ring Protocol configuration
- Metro Ring Protocol diagnostics
- Displaying MRP information
- MRP CLI example
- VSRP
- VSRP configuration notes and feature limitations
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 redundancy
- Master election and failover
- VSRP-aware security features
- VSRP parameters
- Configuring basic VSRP parameters
- Configuring optional VSRP parameters
- Disabling or re-enabling VSRP
- Changing the timer scale
- Configuring authentication
- Configuring security features on a VSRP-aware device
- Removing a port from the VRID VLAN
- Configuring a VRID IP address
- Changing the backup priority
- Saving the timer values received from the master
- Changing the TTL setting
- Changing the hello interval setting
- Changing the dead interval setting
- Changing the backup hello state and interval setting
- Changing the hold-down interval setting
- Changing the default track priority setting
- Specifying a track port setting
- Disabling or re-enabling backup pre-emption setting
- Suppressing RIP advertisement from backups
- VSRP-aware interoperablilty
- Displaying VSRP information
- VSRP fast start
- VSRP and MRP signaling
- UDLD and Protected Link Groups
- Supported UDLD and protected link group features
- UDLD overview
- Protected link groups
- Link Aggregation
- Supported link aggregation features
- Overview of link aggregation
- LAG formation rules
- Configuration notes for FastIron devices in a traditional stack
- Maximum number of LAGs
- Migrating from a previous release to 08.0.00a LAG or LACP configuration
- Downgrade considerations
- LAG Load Sharing
- LAG hashing on stacking products
- Configuring a LAG
- Deploying a LAG
- Commands available under LAG once it is deployed
- Disabling ports within a LAG
- Enabling ports within a LAG
- Adding a Port to Currently Deployed LAG
- Deleting a Port from a Currently Deployed LAG
- Monitoring an individual LAG port
- Assigning a name to a port within a LAG
- Enabling sFlow forwarding on a port in a LAG
- Setting the sFlow sampling rate for a port in a LAG
- IP assignment within a LAG
- Displaying LAG information
- Enabling LAG hardware failover
- Preboot eXecution Environment boot support
- Multi-Chassis Trunking
- Supported MCT features
- Multi-Chassis Trunking Overview
- Layer 2 behavior with MCT
- Layer 3 behavior with MCT
- Displaying MCT information
- MCT configuration examples
- GVRP
- Supported GVRP features
- GVRP overview
- GVRP application examples
- VLAN names created by GVRP
- Configuration notes for GVRP
- GVRP configuration
- Converting a VLAN created by GVRP into a statically-configured VLAN
- Displaying GVRP information
- Clearing GVRP statistics
- GVRP CLI examples
- Port mirroring and Monitoring
- Supported port mirroring and monitoring features
- Port mirroring and monitoring overview
- Port mirroring and monitoring configuration
- Mirroring configuration on a traditional stack
- ACL-based inbound mirroring
- MAC address filter-based mirroring
- VLAN-based mirroring
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Supported STP features
- STP overview
- Standard STP parameter configuration
- STP feature configuration
- Fast port span
- Fast Uplink Span
- 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP)
- Bridges and bridge port roles
- Edge ports and edge port roles
- Point-to-point ports
- Bridge port states
- Edge port and non-edge port states
- Changes to port roles and states
- 802.1W convergence in a simple topology
- Convergence after a link failure
- Convergence at link restoration
- Convergence in a complex 802.1W topology
- Propagation of topology change
- Compatibility of 802.1W with 802.1D
- Configuring 802.1W parameters on a Brocade device
- Displaying information about 802-1W
- 802.1W Draft 3
- Single Spanning Tree (SSTP)
- STP per VLAN group
- PVST/PVST+ compatibility
- PVRST compatibility
- BPDU guard
- Root guard
- Designated Protection
- Error disable recovery
- Enabling an error-disabled port automatically
- Enabling an error-disabled port manually
- Setting the recovery interval
- Displaying the error disable recovery state by interface
- Displaying the recovery state for all conditions
- Displaying the recovery state by port number and cause
- Errdisable Syslog messages
- 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
- Multiple spanning-tree regions
- Configuration notes
- Configuring MSTP mode and scope
- Reduced occurrences of MSTP reconvergence
- Configuring additional MSTP parameters
- Setting the MSTP name
- Setting the MSTP revision number
- Configuring an MSTP instance
- Configuring bridge priority for an MSTP instance
- Setting the MSTP global parameters
- Setting ports to be operational edge ports
- Setting automatic operational edge ports
- Setting point-to-point link
- Disabling MSTP on a port
- Forcing ports to transmit an MSTP BPDU
- Displaying MSTP statistics
- Displaying MSTP information for a specified instance
- Displaying MSTP information for CIST instance 0
- VLANs
- Supported VLAN features
- VLAN overview
- Types of VLANs
- Modifying a port-based VLAN
- Default VLAN
- 802.1Q tagging
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Virtual routing interfaces
- VLAN and virtual routing interface groups
- Dynamic, static, and excluded port membership
- Super aggregated VLANs
- Trunk group ports and VLAN membership
- Summary of VLAN configuration rules
- Routing between VLANs
- Virtual routing interfaces (Layer 2 Switches only)
- Routing between VLANs using virtual routing interfaces (Layer 3 Switches only)
- Dynamic port assignment (Layer 2 Switches and Layer 3 Switches)
- Assigning a different VLAN ID to the default VLAN
- Assigning different VLAN IDs to reserved VLANs 4091 and 4092
- Assigning trunk group ports
- Enable spanning tree on a VLAN
- Configuring IP subnet, IPX network and protocol-based VLANs
- IP subnet, IPX network, and protocol-based VLANs within port-based VLANs
- IPv6 protocol VLAN configuration
- Routing between VLANs using virtual routing interfaces (Layer 3 Switches only)
- Configuring protocol VLANs with dynamic ports
- Configuring uplink ports within a port-based VLAN
- IP subnet address on multiple port-based VLANconfiguration
- VLAN groups and virtual routing interface group
- Super-aggregated VLAN configuration
- Configuration notes for aggregated VLANs
- Configuring aggregated VLANs
- Verifying the aggregated VLAN configuration
- Complete CLI examples for aggregated VLANs
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device A
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device B
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device C
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device D
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device E
- Commands for configuring aggregated VLANs on device F
- 802.1ad tagging configuration
- Private VLAN configuration
- Dual-mode VLAN ports
- Displaying VLAN information
- Displaying VLANs in alphanumeric order
- Displaying system-wide VLAN information
- Displaying global VLAN information
- Displaying VLAN information for specific ports
- Displaying a port VLAN membership
- Displaying a port dual-mode VLAN membership
- Displaying port default VLAN IDs (PVIDs)
- Displaying PVLAN information
- VXLAN
- VXLAN-related syslog messages
- Layer 2 Commands
- clear notification-mac statistics
- errdisable packet-inerror-detect
- failover
- force-up ethernet
- interface l2-tunnel
- l2-tunnel
- l2-tunnel mode vxlan eline
- mac-notification interval
- packet-inerror-detect
- show interface l2-tunnel
- show notification-mac
- show packet-inerror-detect
- show span designated-protect
- snmp-server enable traps mac-notification
- spanning-tree designated-protect
- system-max mac-notification-buffer
- vxlan vlan