Brocade FastIron Ethernet Switch Platform and Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide User Manual
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Setting the sFlow sampling rate for a port in a LAG....................... 149
IP assignment within a LAG............................................................149
Displaying LAG information.............................................................149
Enabling LAG hardware failover .................................................... 154
Preboot eXecution Environment boot support............................................ 154
Enabling PXE boot support on a port..............................................154
How MCT works..............................................................................156
MCT terminology.............................................................................157
MCT data flow.................................................................................157
MCT and VLANs............................................................................. 162
Cluster client automatic configuration............................................. 162
MCT feature interaction...................................................................163
Basic MCT configuration.................................................................164
Setting up cluster client automatic configuration ............................169
MCT failover scenarios................................................................... 170
MAC operations.............................................................................. 173
Port loop detection.......................................................................... 177
MCT Layer 2 protocols....................................................................177
Protocol-based VLANs....................................................................178
Uplink switch................................................................................... 179
Layer 2 multicast snooping over MCT.............................................179
Forcing a port up in a basic MCT configuration.............................. 181
Layer 3 unicast over MCT...............................................................184
MCT for VRRP or VRRP-E............................................................. 187
Displaying peer and client states.................................................... 190
Displaying state machine information............................................. 191
Displaying cluster, peer, and client states.......................................191
Displaying information about Ethernet interfaces........................... 192
Displaying STP information.............................................................193
Displaying information for multicast snooping.................................193
MCT configuration examples ..................................................................... 195
Single-level MCT example.............................................................. 195
Two-level MCT example................................................................. 198
MCT configuration with VRRP-E example...................................... 203
Multicast snooping configuration example...................................... 205
MCT configuration examples using STP ........................................208
Supported GVRP features.......................................................................... 215
GVRP overview...........................................................................................215
GVRP application examples....................................................................... 216
Dynamic core and fixed edge..........................................................217
Dynamic core and dynamic edge....................................................218
Fixed core and dynamic edge.........................................................218
Fixed core and fixed edge...............................................................218
VLAN names created by GVRP..................................................................218
Configuration notes for GVRP.....................................................................218
GVRP configuration.................................................................................... 220
Changing the GVRP base VLAN ID................................................220
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