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Fabric interface configuration management
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Fabric interface configuration management
A physical interface in a virtual switch cluster can either be an edge port or a fabric port, but not
both. Similar to a switch-port configuration on a physical interface, you can also use the NETCONF
interface to change a fabric-port configuration on its physical interface to be a fabric ISL port or a
fabric trunk port as described in the following sections.
NOTE
Fabric ISLs apply only to 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and 40-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
Enabling a fabric ISL
Configuring the port for fabric ISL controls whether an ISL should be formed between two cluster
members. With the default setting of ISL discovery to auto and the ISL formation mode enabled, an
ISL automatically forms between two cluster switches.
Enabling fabric ISL on an operational ISL has no effect. However, disabling fabric ISL disables ISL
formation and triggers the switch to inform its neighbor that the local interface is ISL disabled.
Upon receiving such information, a neighbor switch stops its ISL formation activity regardless of its
current interface state.
To enable fabric ISL, perform the following steps.
1. Issue the RPC to configure the node in the
urn:brocade.com:mgmt:brocade-interface namespace.
2. Under the node, include the , ,
, or node element.
3. Under the , , , or
node element, include the leaf element and specify the
name of the interface on which you want to enable fabric ISL. Specify the name in
[rbridge-id/]slot/port format.
4. Under the , , , or
node element, include the node element in the
urn:brocade.com:mgmt:brocade-fcoe namespace.
5. Under the node, include the node element.
6. Under the node element, include the empty element to enable
fabric ISL on the interface.
The following example enables fabric ISL on 10-Gigabit Ethernet port 1/0/2.