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To configure in-flight encryption and compression across an IFL, first configure encryption and
compression on the EX_Port in the FC router.
Perform the following steps to configure the E_Port in the switch.
1. Determine which ports are available for encryption or compression.
Viewing the encryption and compression configuration
on page 414 for instructions.
2. If you are enabling encryption on the port, configure port level authentication for the port.
Omit this step if you want to enable only compression on the port.
Configuring and enabling authentication for in-flight encryption
on page 415 for
instructions.
3. Enable encryption on the port.
on page 417 for instructions.
4. Enable compression on the port.
Enabling in-flight compression
on page 418 for instructions.
Following successful port initialization, the configured features are enabled and active. You can use
the islShow command to check that the E_Port has come online with encryption or compression
enabled. Alternatively, you can use the portEncCompShow command to see which ports are
active.
If port initialization is not successful, you can check for port segmentation errors with the
switchShow command. This command will tell you if the segmentation was due to mismatched
encryption or compression configurations on the ports at either end of the ISL, if port-level
authentication failed, or if a required resource was not available.
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Before enabling ports for in-flight encryption or compression, you should determine which ports are
available. Enabling encryption or compression fails if you try to exceed the number of allowable ports
available for encryption or compression on the ASIC.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the portEncCompShow command.
The following example shows the output for two ASICs.
ASIC 1 (below the line of dashes) already has compression configured and active on user ports 348
and 349. Given the limit of two ports per ASIC, ASIC 1 has no more ports available for encryption or
compression.
ASIC 0 (above the dashed line) has no ports configured for either encryption or compression and
therefore has any two ports available for this purpose.
switch:admin> portenccompshow
User Encryption Compression Config
Port Configured Active Configured Active Speed
---- ---------- ------ ---------- ------ -----
17 No No No No 4G
18 No No No No 4G
19 No No No No 4G
(output truncated)
149 No No No No 4G
150 No No No No 4G
151 No No No No 4G
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