Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) User Manual
Multi-service ironware, Switching configuration guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Configuring Interface Parameters
- Assigning a port name
- Assigning an IP address to a port
- Modifying port speed
- Modifying port mode
- Disabling or re-enabling a port
- Disabling Source Address Learning on a port
- Changing the default Gigabit negotiation mode
- Disabling or re-enabling flow control
- Modifying port priority (QoS)
- Setting IP VPN packets with a TTL value of 1 to be dropped
- Port transition hold timer
- Port flap dampening
- Port loop detection
- Mirroring and Monitoring
- ACL-based inbound mirroring
- 10G WAN PHY fault and performance management
- Wait for all cards feature
- Link fault signaling
- Displaying and clearing remote fault counters
- Local fault event detection and counters
- Displaying Network Processor statistics
- Enabling the Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Reading Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets
- Using a Redundant Management Module
- How management module redundancy works
- Management module redundancy configuration
- Managing management module redundancy
- Monitoring management module redundancy
- Displaying switchover information
- Flash memory and Auxiliary Flash card file management commands
- Verifying available flash space on the management module before an image is copied
- Management focus
- Flash memory file system
- Auxiliary flash card file system
- Wildcards
- Formatting a flash card
- Determining the current management focus
- Switching the management focus
- Displaying a directory of the files
- Displaying the contents of a file
- Displaying the hexadecimal output of a file
- Creating a subdirectory
- Removing a subdirectory
- Renaming a file
- Changing the read-write attribute of a file
- Deleting a file
- Recovering (“undeleting”) a file
- Appending a file to another file
- Copying files using the copy command
- Copying files using the cp command
- Loading the software
- Saving configuration changes
- File management messages
- Configuring LLDP
- LLDP overview
- General operating principles
- Configuration considerations
- Using LLDP
- Enabling LLDP
- Changing the operating mode of a port
- Specifying the maximum number of LLDP neighbors
- Enable bridging of LLDP BPDUs when LLDP not enabled
- Enabling LLDP SNMP notifications and Syslog messages
- Specifying the minimum time between SNMP traps and Syslog messages
- Changing the minimum time between LLDP transmissions
- Changing the interval between regular LLDP transmissions
- Changing the holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL
- Changing the minimum time between port reinitializations
- LLDP TLVs advertised by the Brocade device
- Displaying LLDP statistics and configuration settings
- Resetting LLDP statistics
- Brocade NetIron XMR and Brocade MLX Series Link Aggregation
- LAG formation rules
- LAG load sharing
- Migrating from a pre-03.7.00 LAG or LACP configuration
- Configuring a LAG
- Deploying a LAG
- Commands available under LAG once it is deployed
- Configuring ACL-based mirroring
- Disabling ports within a LAG
- Enabling ports within a LAG
- Adding a Port to Currently Deployed LAG
- Deleting a Port from a Currently Deployed LAG
- Monitoring an individual LAG port
- Assigning a name to a port within a LAG
- Enabling sFlow forwarding on a port in a LAG
- Setting the sFlow sampling rate for a port in a LAG
- Configuring a dynamic LAG within a VRF
- Configuring multicast dynamic load rebalancing on a LAG
- Displaying LAG information
- Displaying LAG statistics
- Displaying multicast LAG member port usage
- Displaying LAG information for a specified LAG name or LAG ID
- Displaying the running configuration for a LAG
- Displaying LACP information for a specified LAG name or LAG ID
- Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER Link Aggregation
- LAG formation rules
- LAG load sharing
- Deploying a LAG
- Commands available under LAG once it is deployed
- Configuring ACL-based mirroring
- Disabling ports within a LAG
- Enabling ports within a LAG
- Monitoring an individual LAG port
- Naming a port in a LAG
- Enabling sFlow forwarding on a port in a LAG
- Setting the sFlow sampling rate for a port in a LAG
- Static LAG Considerations
- Displaying LAG information
- Displaying LAG statistics
- Displaying LAG information for a specified LAG name or LAG ID
- Displaying the running configuration for a LAG
- VLANs
- Tagged, untagged, and dual mode ports
- Protocol-based VLANs
- VLAN configuration rules
- Configuring port-based VLANs
- Configuring protocol-based VLANs
- Configuring virtual routing interfaces
- VLAN groups
- Configuring super aggregated VLANs
- Configuring 802.1q-in-q tagging
- Configuring 802.1q tag-type translation
- Miscellaneous VLAN features
- Hardware flooding for layer 2 multicast and broadcast packets
- Unknown unicast flooding on VLAN ports
- Command changes to support Gen-2 modules
- Extended VLAN counters for 8x10G modules
- Configuring extended VLAN counters
- Displaying VLAN counters
- Clearing extended VLAN counters
- IP interface commands
- Transparent VLAN flooding
- Transparent firewall mode
- Displaying VLAN information
- Multi-port static MAC address
- Configuring multi-port static MAC address
- Displaying multi-port static MAC address information
- SA and DA learning and aging
- MP switchover and hitless upgrade
- Flooding features
- Command
- Ethernet Service Instance (ESI) for Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER Devices
- IEEE 802.1ad - Provider Bridges for the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER
- About IEEE 802.1ad
- IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridging limitations
- Port type configuration for Provider Bridging (PB)
- Configuration steps
- Displaying the port type
- Creating an ESI
- PB using untagged members
- SVLAN translation using flood domain configuration
- Port-based Service Interface Super Aggregated VLANs (SAV)
- Layer 2 Protocol Forwarding (L2PF)
- About IEEE 802.1ad
- IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) Networks for the Brocade NetIron CES and the Brocade NetIron CER
- Overview
- Provider Backbone Bridges
- IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB)
- IEEE 802.1ah configuration options
- Displaying tag types
- Port configuration for IEEE 802.1ah and IEEE 802.1ad at each interface
- IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) network configuration example
- IEEE 802.1ah configurations
- ESI configuration display after mappings
- Integrated IEEE 802.1ad and IEEE 802.1ah
- Point to Point PBB
- ISID mapping to VPLS
- Adding and removing VLANs and ESIs
- Overview
- Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) Networks for the Brocade NetIron XMR and the Brocade MLX series
- Overview
- Backbone Edge Bridge (BEB) operation
- Configuring PBB
- 802.1ag over PBB OAM
- Configuration scenarios
- Types of MEPs and MIPs
- Hierarchical Fault Detection Operation
- 802.1ag for Link MA
- 802.1ag for CVLAN and SVLAN
- 802.1ag for BVLAN
- 802.1ag for ISID
- 802.1ag Port Status TLV
- 802.1ag RDI
- Deployment Scenarios and CLI Configuration
- Deployment Scenario-2 (UP MEPs and MIPs on PEs)
- Deployment Scenario-4 (ISID MEPs on BEBs)
- Show Commands
- Configuring STP under an ESI VLAN
- Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
- Configuring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
- Bridges and bridge port roles
- Edge ports and Edge port roles
- Point-to-point ports
- Bridge port states
- Edge port and non-Edge port states
- Changes to port roles and states
- State machines
- Convergence in a simple topology
- Convergence in a complex RSTP topology
- Compatibility of RSTP with 802.1D
- Configuring RSTP parameters
- Displaying RSTP information
- Configuring RSTP under an ESI VLAN
- RSTP support for PB and PBB
- Commands
- Metro Ring Protocol
- Metro Ring Protocol (MRP)
- MRP rings without shared interfaces (MRP Phase 1)
- Ring initialization
- How ring breaks are detected and healed
- Master VLANs and member VLANs in a topology group
- Configuring MRP
- MRP Phase 2
- Tuning MRP timers
- Using MRP diagnostics
- Displaying MRP information
- MRP CLI example
- Configuring MRP under an ESI VLAN
- Ethernet Ring Protection Protocol
- Ethernet Ring Protection
- Initializing a new ERN
- Signal fail
- Manual switch
- Forced switch
- Dual-end blocking
- Non-revertive mode
- Interconnected rings
- FBD flush optimization
- Configuring ERP
- Configuring ERP with IEEE 802.1ag
- ERP commands
- Assigning ERP IDs
- Naming an Ethernet Ring Node
- Configuring the default MAC ID
- Configuring R-APS MEL value
- Configuring R-APS topology change propagation
- Enabling the ERP configuration
- Configuring interfaces
- Assigning the RPL owner role and setting the RPL
- Enabling sub-rings for multi-ring and ladder topologies
- Achieving sub-50ms ring protection switch time
- Configuring non-revertive mode
- Configuring and clearing a forced switch
- Configuring and clearing a manual switch
- Configuring dual-end blocking
- Configuring the guard timer
- Configuring and clearing the wait to restore timer
- Testing the WTR timer
- Configuring and clearing the WTB timer
- Configuring a hold-off timer
- Setting the ITU-T G.8032 version number
- ERP over ESI VLAN (Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER)
- ERP support for PBB (Brocade MLX series and Brocade NetIron XMR)
- Viewing ERP operational status and clearing ERP statistics
- Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)
- Topology Groups
- Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT)
- About Multi-Chassis Trunk (MCT)
- How MCT works
- MCT components
- MCT terminology
- Dynamic LAGs
- Multicast snooping over MCT
- Configure Active-Active MCT
- Active-Passive MCT
- Configure Active-Passive MCT
- Optional cluster operation features
- Port loop detection
- MCT failover scenarios
- Show commands
- Syslogs and debugging
- Multicast show commands
- MAC operations
- Clear MAC commands
- MCT configuration examples
- MCT for VRRP or VRRP-E
- L2VPN support for L2 MCT clusters
- MCT for VPLS
- Forwarding known unicast traffic
- Forwarding broadcast, unknown unicast, multicast traffic
- MAC Learning & Synching
- MAC Aging
- Active-standby role change (revertible timer)
- Local switching with MCT
- CPU protection with MCT
- Auto-discovery with MCT
- Cluster-peer verses vpls-peer
- Graceful Restart and Upgrade
- PE to PE Forwarding
- Unsupported features for MCT enabled VPLS instances
- Configuring the MCT end-point for a VPLS instance
- Disabling cluster-peer mode for a VPLS instance error messages
- VPLS global pw-redundancy (optional)
- Per VPLS instance pw-redundancy (optional)
- VPLS show commands
- Sample MCT configuration with VPLS endpoints
- MCT for VLL
- Configuration synchronization between MCT peers
- Peer information sync
- End point status handling
- End point mismatch
- Hitless upgrade
- Configuring MCT VLL
- L2VPN peer configuration
- VLL global pw-redundancy (optional)
- Per VLL instance pw-redundancy (optional)
- Setting the L2VPN global revertible timer
- PW redundancy auto reversion timer option
- Display commands
- MCT Snooping
- PIM Over MCT
- About Multi-Chassis Trunk (MCT)
- Configuring IP
- The IP packet flow
- Basic IP parameters and defaults
- GRE IP tunnel
- Multicast over GRE tunnel
- Tunnel statistics for a GRE tunnel or IPv6 manual tunnel
- Restart global timers
- Configuring IP parameters
- Configuring IP addresses
- IP Unnumbered Interfaces
- Configuring an unnumbered interface
- Displaying unnumbered interfaces
- ARP suppression on unnumbered interfaces
- Enabling and disabling ARP suppression
- Caveats and limitations for IP Unnumbered Interfaces
- Configuration considerations for IP Unnumbered Interfaces
- Sample configuration for IP Unnumbered Interfaces
- Support for a 31-bit subnet mask on point-to-point networks
- Enabling hardware forwarding of IP option packets based on Layer 3 destination
- Configuring domain name server (DNS) resolver
- Using Telnet and Secure Shell
- Changing the encapsulation type for IP packets
- Setting the maximum frame size globally
- Changing the MTU
- Changing the router ID
- Recalculating the router ID
- IPv6 ND Global Router Advertisement Control
- Specifying a single source interface for Telnet, SSH, NTP, TFTP, TACACS/TACACS+, or RADIUS packets
- Configuring an interface as the source for Syslog packets
- Configuring ARP parameters
- Dynamic ARP inspection
- DHCP snooping
- DHCP option 82 insertion
- Zero Touch Provisioning
- IP source guard
- IP source guard CAM
- Configuring forwarding parameters
- Configuring the maximum ICMP error message rate
- Configuring static routes
- Static route types
- Static IP route parameters
- Multiple static routes to the same destination provide load sharing and redundancy
- Static route states follow port states
- Configuring a static IP route
- Configuring a static IP route between VRFs
- Configuring a “null” route
- Configuring load balancing and redundancy using multiple static routes to the same destination
- Configuring standard static IP routes and interface or null static routes to the same destination
- Static route configuration
- Naming a static IP route
- BFD for Static Routes
- Configuring IP load sharing
- Filtering Martian addresses
- IPv6 Over IPv4 tunnels in hardware
- Displaying IP information
- Displaying IP interface information
- Displaying interface name in Syslog
- Displaying ARP entries
- Displaying the forwarding cache
- Dual Active Console
- Displaying the IP route table
- Clearing IP routes
- Displaying IP traffic statistics
- Displaying GRE tunnel information
- Displaying GRE and manual IPv6 tunnel statistics
- Displaying martian addressing information
- Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP)
- Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP)
- Reverse Path Forwarding
- RPF configuration
- Configuration considerations for RPF
- Special considerations for configuring RPF on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices
- Special considerations for configuring RPF with ECMP routes
- RPF support for IP over MPLS routes
- RPF-compatible CAM profiles
- Configuring the global RPF command
- Enabling RPF on individual ports
- Configuring a timer interval for IPv6 session logging
- Suppressing RPF for packets with specified address prefixes
- Excluding packets that match the routers default route
- Displaying RPF statistics
- Clearing RPF statistics for a specified IPv4 interface
- Clearing RPF statistics for all IPv4 interfaces within a router
- Clearing RPF statistics for a specified IPv6 interface
- Clearing RPF statistics for all IPv6 interfaces within a router
- Displaying RPF logging
- RPF configuration
- sFlow
- Configuring Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
- BiDirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)