Portcfgtrunkport – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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portCfgTrunkPort

Enables or disables trunking on a port.

Synopsis

portcfgtrunkport [slot/]port[,] mode

Description

Use this command to enable or disable trunking on a port. Use switchCfgTrunk to enable or disable
trunking on all ports of a switch.

When the command is executed to update the trunking configuration, the port to which the
configuration applies is disabled and subsequently re-enabled with the new trunking configuration.
Traffic through the ports may be temporarily disrupted.

Disabling trunking fails if a Trunk Area (TA) is enabled on the port. Use the portTrunkArea command
to remove the TA before disabling trunking.

Notes

Enabling trunking requires an ISL Trunking license. You may disable trunking without a license.

The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.

The Fabric OS port configuration commands are not supported on FCoE ports.

Virtual FC Ports do not support frame-based trunking . If trunking is enabled for one of these ports
in a slot, and a Brocade FX-24 Extension blade is inserted into the slot, the configuration is not
honored and the system logs a RASLOG error. An attempt to enable trunking for a Virtual FC port in
a slot that contains a Brocade FX-24 is rejected.

Operands

This command has the following operands:

slot

For bladed systems only, specifies the slot number of the port to be
configured, followed by a slash (/).

port

Specifies the port to be configured, relative to its slot for bladed systems. Use
switchShow to display a listing of valid ports.

mode

Specify 1 to enable trunking on the specified port. Specify 0 to disable
trunking on the port. This operand is required. Trunking is enabled by default,
when a trunking license is present on the switch.

Examples

To enable a port for trunking:

switch:admin>

portcfgtrunkport 1/3, 1