Contents
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User access control .............................................................................................................................. 34
Setting up user IDs .......................................................................................................................... 35
Ports and trunking
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 36
Ports on the switch ............................................................................................................................... 36
Port trunk groups.................................................................................................................................. 37
Statistical load distribution................................................................................................................ 37
Built-in fault tolerance....................................................................................................................... 37
Before you configure trunks ................................................................................................................... 37
Trunk group configuration rules.............................................................................................................. 38
Port trunking example ........................................................................................................................... 39
Configuring trunk groups (CLI example) ............................................................................................. 40
Configuring trunk groups (BBI example) ............................................................................................. 41
Configurable Trunk Hash algorithm ........................................................................................................ 44
Link Aggregation Control Protocol.......................................................................................................... 44
Configuring LACP ........................................................................................................................... 46
Port-based Network Access and traffic control
Port-based Network Access control......................................................................................................... 47
Extensible authentication protocol over LAN ....................................................................................... 47
802.1x authentication process.......................................................................................................... 48
EAPoL Message Exchange ............................................................................................................... 48
802.1x port states........................................................................................................................... 49
Supported RADIUS attributes ............................................................................................................ 50
EAPoL configuration guidelines ......................................................................................................... 51
Port-based traffic control ....................................................................................................................... 51
Configuring port-based traffic control................................................................................................. 52
VLANs
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 53
Overview............................................................................................................................................ 53
VLANs and port VLAN ID numbers ......................................................................................................... 53
VLAN numbers ............................................................................................................................... 53
Viewing VLANs ......................................................................................................................... 54
PVID numbers ................................................................................................................................. 54
Viewing and configuring PVIDs......................................................................................................... 54
Port information ......................................................................................................................... 54
Port configuration....................................................................................................................... 54
VLAN tagging ..................................................................................................................................... 55
VLANs and IP interfaces........................................................................................................................ 58
VLAN topologies and design considerations............................................................................................ 58
VLAN configuration rules ................................................................................................................. 59
Multiple VLANS with tagging................................................................................................................. 60
Configuring the example network...................................................................................................... 61
Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 1 (CLI example) ................................................................ 61
Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 2 (CLI example) ................................................................ 63
Configuring ports and VLANs on Switch 1 (BBI example) ................................................................ 64
FDB static entries.................................................................................................................................. 66
Trunking support for FDB static entries................................................................................................ 67
Configuring a static FDB entry .......................................................................................................... 67
Spanning Tree Protocol
