Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 80)

60 Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Trunking in Access Gateway mode
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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 Manual. F_Port trunking will not support shared area ports 16-47 on the
Brocade FC8-48 blades.
Table 9 shows an example of the address identifier.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Disable the ports to be included in the TA.
3. Enable a TA for the appropriate ports. The following example enables a TA for ports 13 and 14
on slot 10 with port index of 125.
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --enable 10/13-14 -index 125
4. Display the TA port configuration (ports still disabled) using the porttrunkarea --show enabled
command.
5. Enable the ports specified in step 3 using the portenable command.
switch:admin> portenable 10/13
switch:admin> portenable 10/14
6. Show the TA port configuration after enabling the ports using the porttrunkarea --show enabled
command. The ports that you enabled should appear in the output.
Enabling the DCC policy on a trunk
After you assign a Trunk Area, the porttrunkarea command checks whether there are any active
Device Connection Control (DCC) policies on the port with the index TA, and then issues a warning
to add all the device WWNs to the existing DCC policy with index as TA. All DCC policies that refer to
an Index that no longer exist will not be in effect.
Use the following steps to enable the DCC policy on a trunk.
1. Add the WWN of all the devices to the DCC policy against the TA.
2. Enter the secpolicyactivate command to activate the DCC policy.
You must enable the TA before issuing the secpolicyactivate command in order for security to
enforce the DCC policy on the trunk ports.
TABLE 9 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