Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 525)

• F_Port trunks are not allowed on the base switch because you cannot have F_Ports on the base
switch.
• If F_Port trunking is enabled on some ports in the default switch, and you disable Virtual Fabrics, all
of the F_Port trunking information is lost.
• All of the ports in an F_Port trunk must belong to a single trunk group of ports on the platform and
must also belong to the same logical switch.
Refer to Managing Virtual Fabrics on page 267 for detailed information about Virtual Fabrics.
Displaying F_Port trunking information
Use the following commands on the edge switch to verify the F_Port trunking configuration.
• Enter the switchShow command to display the switch and port information.
• Enter the portTrunkArea --show enabled command to display the TA-enabled port configuration.
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --show enabled
Port Type State Master TI DI
-------------------------------------
36 F-port Master 36 37 36
37 F-port Slave 36 37 37
38 F-port Slave 36 37 38
39 F-port Slave 36 37 39
• Enter the portTrunkArea --show trunk command to display the trunking information.
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --show trunk
Trunk Index 37: 39->0 sp: 8.000G bw: 16.000G deskew 15 MASTER
Tx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.63Gbps (11.84%)
Rx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.62Gbps (11.76%)
Tx+Rx: Bandwidth 32.00Gbps, Throughput 3.24Gbps (11.80%)
38->1 sp: 8.000G bw: 8.000G deskew 15
Tx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.63Gbps (11.84%)
Rx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.62Gbps (11.76%)
Tx+Rx: Bandwidth 32.00Gbps, Throughput 3.24Gbps (11.80%)
37->1 sp: 8.000G bw: 8.000G deskew 15
Tx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.63Gbps (11.84%)
Rx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.62Gbps (11.76%)
Tx+Rx: Bandwidth 32.00Gbps, Throughput 3.24Gbps (11.80%)
36->1 sp: 8.000G bw: 8.000G deskew 15
Tx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.63Gbps (11.84%)
Rx: Bandwidth 16.00Gbps, Throughput 1.62Gbps (11.76%)
Tx+Rx: Bandwidth 32.00Gbps, Throughput 3.24Gbps (11.80%)
Disabling F_Port trunking
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the portDisable command to disable the ports that are to be removed from the trunk area.
3. Enter the portTrunkArea --disable command to remove ports from the trunk area.
This command does not unassign a TA if its previously assigned Area_ID is the same address
identifier (Area_ID) of the TA unless all the ports in the trunk group are specified to be unassigned.
switch:admin> portdisable 0-2
switch:admin> porttrunkarea --disable 0-2
Trunk index 2 disabled for ports 0, 1, and 2.
Displaying F_Port trunking information
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