Document Outline

• Title Page
• Preface
  • Applicable devices
  • Audience
  • Conventions
    • Command conventions
    • GUI conventions
    • Symbols
    • Network topology icons
    • Port numbering in examples
  • About the H3C firewall documentation set
  • Obtaining documentation
  • Technical support
  • Documentation feedback
• Contents
• IRF overview
  • Feature and hardware compatibility
  • IRF application scenario
  • IRF functionality
    • Network topology
    • Simplified topology
    • Single point of management
    • Node redundancy
    • Link redundancy
      • IRF link aggregation
      • Multichassis link aggregation
    • Configuration synchronization
  • Basic concepts
    • Operating mode
    • IRF member roles
    • IRF member ID
    • MPU roles
    • IRF port
    • IRF physical interface
    • MAD
    • IRF domain ID
    • IRF split
    • IRF merge
    • Member priority
  • Master election
  • Multi-active handling procedure
    • Detection
    • Collision handling
    • Failure recovery
  • MAD mechanisms
    • BFD MAD (centralized IRF devices)
    • BFD MAD (distributed devices)
    • ARP MAD
    • ND MAD
• Setting up an IRF fabric (centralized IRF devices)
  • Hardware compatibility
  • General restrictions and configuration guidelines
    • IRF fabric size and member ID restrictions
    • Software requirements
    • IRF physical interface requirements
    • Connecting IRF ports
    • Feature compatibility and configuration restrictions
    • Configuration backup
  • Setup and configuration task list
  • Planning the IRF fabric setup
  • Assigning a member ID to each IRF member device
  • Specifying a priority for each member device
  • Connecting IRF physical interfaces
  • Binding physical interfaces to IRF ports
  • Accessing the IRF fabric
  • Configuring a member device description
  • Configuring IRF link load sharing mode
    • Configuring the global load sharing mode
    • Configuring a port-specific load sharing mode
  • Configuring IRF bridge MAC persistence
  • Enabling software auto-update for software image synchronization
    • Configuration prerequisites
    • Configuration procedure
  • Setting the IRF link down report delay
  • Configuring BFD MAD
    • Configuration restrictions and guidelines
    • Configuration procedure
  • Excluding a port from the shutdown action upon detection of multi-active collision
  • Recovering an IRF fabric
  • Displaying and maintaining an IRF fabric
  • BFD MAD-enabled IRF configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
• Setting up an IRF fabric (distributed devices)
  • Hardware compatibility
  • General restrictions and configuration guidelines
    • IRF fabric size and member ID restrictions
    • Software requirements
    • MPU requirements for distributed devices
    • IRF physical interface requirements
      • Candidate IRF physical interfaces
      • QSFP+ port restrictions
    • Connecting IRF ports
    • Feature compatibility and configuration restrictions
    • Configuration backup
  • Setup and configuration task list
  • Planning the IRF fabric setup
  • Preconfiguring IRF member devices in standalone mode
    • Assigning a member ID to each IRF member device
    • Specifying a priority for each member device
    • Binding physical interfaces to IRF ports
  • Saving configuration to the next-startup configuration file
  • Connecting IRF physical interfaces
  • Setting the operating mode to IRF mode
  • Accessing the IRF fabric
  • Configuring IRF member devices in IRF mode
    • Changing the member ID of a device
    • Changing the priority of a member device
    • Adding physical interfaces to an IRF port
    • Enabling IRF auto-merge
    • Configuring a member device description
    • Configuring IRF link load sharing mode
      • Configuring the global load sharing mode
      • Configuring a port-specific load sharing mode
    • Configuring IRF bridge MAC persistence
    • Enabling software auto-update for software image synchronization
      • Configuration prerequisites
      • Configuration procedure
    • Setting the IRF link down report delay
    • Configuring MAD
      • Configuring BFD MAD
      • Configuring ARP MAD
      • Configuring ND MAD
      • Excluding a port from the shutdown action upon detection of multi-active collision
    • Recovering an IRF fabric
  • Displaying and maintaining an IRF fabric
  • IRF setup configuration examples
    • BFD MAD-enabled IRF configuration example
      • Network requirements
      • Configuration procedure
    • ARP MAD-enabled IRF configuration example
      • Network requirements
      • Configuration procedure
    • ND MAD-enabled IRF configuration example
      • Network requirements
      • Configuration procedure
    • Configuration example for restoring standalone mode
      • Network requirements
      • Configuration procedure
• Configuring contexts
  • Overview
    • Context applications
    • Default context and non-default contexts
  • Feature and hardware compatibility
  • Context configuration task list
  • Creating contexts
  • Assigning contexts to security engines
    • Configuring security engine groups
    • Assigning a context to a security engine group
  • Assigning resources to a context
    • Assigning CPU, disk, and memory resources to a context
      • CPU resources assignment guidelines
      • Disk space assignment guidelines
      • Memory space assignment guidelines
      • Configuration procedure
    • Assigning interfaces to a context
    • Assigning VLANs to a context
    • Configuring resource limits for contexts
      • Setting a throughput threshold
      • Setting the maximum number of object policy rules
      • Setting the maximum number of concurrent sessions
      • Setting the upper limit of session establishment rate
  • Starting a context
  • Accessing a context
  • Displaying and maintaining contexts
  • Context configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Index