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RUCKUS FastIron Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide, 08.0.95 53-1005657-13

  • 1 CommScope Legal Statements
  • Preface Ruckus
    • 3 Contact Information, Resources, and Conventions
      • 3.1 Contacting RUCKUS Customer Services and Support
      • 3.2 Document Feedback
      • 3.3 RUCKUS Product Documentation Resources
      • 3.4 Online Training Resources
      • 3.5 Document Conventions
      • 3.6 Command Syntax Conventions
  • About This Guide
    • 4 About This Document
      • 4.1 What’s new in this document
      • 4.2 Supported Hardware
      • 4.3 How Command Information is Presented in this Configuration Guide
  • RFN
    • 5 Remote Fault Notification
      • 5.1 Remote Fault Notification on 1 Gbps Fiber Connections
      • 5.2 Enabling Remote Fault Notification
  • 6 Metro Ring Protocol
    • 6.1 Metro Ring Protocol Overview
      • 6.1.1 Metro Ring Protocol Configuration Notes
    • 6.2 MRP Rings with Shared Interfaces (MRP Phase 2)
      • 6.2.1 Selection of Master Node
    • 6.3 MRP Rings Without Shared Interfaces (MRP Phase 1)
    • 6.4 Ring Initialization and Ring Health Packets (RHP) Processing
      • 6.4.1 RHP Processing in MRP Phase 1
      • 6.4.2 RHP Processing in MRP Phase 2
    • 6.5 How Ring Breaks are Detected and Healed
    • 6.6 MRP Topology Groups
    • 6.7 Metro Ring Protocol Diagnostics
    • 6.8 Metro Ring Protocol Configuration
      • 6.8.1 Configuring Metro Ring Protocol
        • 6.8.1.1 Displaying MRP Information
      • 6.8.2 Scenario - 2: Configuring MRP
        • 6.8.2.1 Displaying MRP Information (Scenario 2 Configuration)
      • 6.8.3 Scenario - 3: Configuring MRP for Topology Group
        • 6.8.3.1 Displaying MRP information for Topology Group
    • 6.9 MRP CLI Example
      • 6.9.1 MRP Commands on Switch A (Master Node)
      • 6.9.2 MRP Commands on Switch B
      • 6.9.3 MRP Commands on Switch C
      • 6.9.4 MRP Commands on Switch D
  • 7 Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)
    • 7.1 VSRP Overview
    • 7.2 VSRP Configuration Notes and Feature Limitations
    • 7.3 VSRP Redundancy
    • 7.4 Master Election and Failover
      • 7.4.1 VSRP Failover
      • 7.4.2 VSRP Priority Calculation
      • 7.4.3 MAC Address Failover on VSRP-Aware Devices
    • 7.5 VSRP Interval Timers
    • 7.6 Configuring Device Redundancy Using VSRP
    • 7.7 Configuring Optional VSRP Parameters
    • 7.8 Configuring Authentication on VSRP Interfaces
    • 7.9 Tracking Ports and Setting the VSRP Priority
    • 7.10 Disabling Backup Preemption
      • 7.10.1 Disabling VSRP Backup Preemption
    • 7.11 VSRP-Aware Security Features
      • 7.11.1 Configuring Security Parameters on a VSRP-Aware Device
    • 7.12 VSRP Fast Start
      • 7.12.1 Special Considerations when Configuring VSRP Fast Start
      • 7.12.2 Recommendations for Configuring VSRP Fast Start
      • 7.12.3 Configuring VSRP Fast Start Globally
    • 7.13 VSRP and MRP Signaling
  • UDLD and Protected Link Groups
    • 8 UDLD
      • 8.1 UDLD Overview
        • 8.1.1 UDLD for Tagged Ports
        • 8.1.2 Configuration Notes and Feature Limitations for UDLD
      • 8.2 Configuring UDLD
      • 8.3 Displaying UDLD Information
      • 8.4 Clearing UDLD Statistics
  • 9 Link Aggregation Group
    • 9.1 Overview of Link Aggregation
      • 9.1.1 LAG Virtual Interface
      • 9.1.2 LAG Formation Rules
      • 9.1.3 Error Disable
      • 9.1.4 Error Disable Recovery
      • 9.1.5 LAG Virtual Anchor Speed
      • 9.1.6 Use Cases
      • 9.1.7 Configuration Notes for FastIron Devices in a Traditional Stack
      • 9.1.8 Maximum number of LAGs
      • 9.1.9 Upgrade and Downgrade Notes
      • 9.1.10 LAG Load Sharing
      • 9.1.11 LAG Hashing on Stacking Products
      • 9.1.12 Symmetric Load Balancing
    • 9.2 Configuring a LAG
      • 9.2.1 Creating a Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
      • 9.2.2 Configuring LAG Virtual Interface
      • 9.2.3 Configuring a Layer 3 Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
      • 9.2.4 Configuring an LACP Timeout
      • 9.2.5 Specifying the LAG Threshold for a LAG
      • 9.2.6 Enabling Ports Within a LAG
      • 9.2.7 Disabling Ports Within a LAG
      • 9.2.8 Removing a Port from a Currently Operational LAG
      • 9.2.9 Monitoring LAG Virtual Interface and Individual LAG Port
      • 9.2.10 Assigning a Name to a Port Within a LAG
        • 9.2.10.1 Allowable Characters for LAG Names
      • 9.2.11 Enabling sFlow Forwarding on a Port in a LAG
      • 9.2.12 Setting the sFlow Sampling Rate for a LAG
      • 9.2.13 Assigning an IP Address Within a LAG
      • 9.2.14 Renaming an Existing LAG
      • 9.2.15 Displaying LAG Information
      • 9.2.16 Enabling LAG Hardware Failover
      • 9.2.17 Preboot eXecution Environment Boot Support
        • 9.2.17.1 Enabling PXE Boot Support on a Port
      • 9.2.18 User-Configured Peer Information per LACP
    • 9.3 Resilient Hashing
      • 9.3.1 Resilient Hashing Limitations
      • 9.3.2 Configuring Resilient Hashing
  • 10 Multi-Chassis Trunking
    • 10.1 Multi-Chassis Trunking Overview
      • 10.1.1 How MCT Works
      • 10.1.2 MCT Terminology
      • 10.1.3 MCT Data Flow
      • 10.1.4 MCT and VLANs
      • 10.1.5 MCT Feature Interaction and Unsupported Features
      • 10.1.6 MCT Board Type Compatibility
    • 10.2 Basic MCT Configuration
      • 10.2.1 MCT configuration considerations
      • 10.2.2 Differences in Configuring MCT for the Switch and Router Image
      • 10.2.3 Configuring MCT
        • 10.2.3.1 Step 1: Configure ICL for Cluster Devices and LAGs for Client Devices
        • 10.2.3.2 Step 2: Configure the MCT VLAN, MCT Session VLAN, and Recommended MCT keep-alive VLAN
        • 10.2.3.3 Step 3: Configuring the Cluster
        • 10.2.3.4 Step 4: Configuring Clients
      • 10.2.4 Forcing a Port Up in a Basic MCT Configuration
    • 10.3 Cluster Client Automatic Configuration
      • 10.3.1 Setting Up Cluster Client Automatic Configuration
    • 10.4 MCT Failover Scenarios
      • 10.4.1 Cluster Failover Mode
        • 10.4.1.1 Configuring the Failover Mode
      • 10.4.2 Client Isolation Mode
        • 10.4.2.1 Configuring Client Isolation Mode
      • 10.4.3 Shutting Down All Client Interfaces
      • 10.4.4 Using the Keep-Alive VLAN
      • 10.4.5 Setting Keep-Alive Timers and Hold Time
    • 10.5 Layer 2 Behavior with MCT
      • 10.5.1 Dynamic Trunks
      • 10.5.2 Port Loop Detection
      • 10.5.3 MCT Layer 2 Protocols
      • 10.5.4 Layer 2 Multicast Snooping over MCT
        • 10.5.4.1 IGMP and MLD Snooping
        • 10.5.4.2 IGMP and MLD Snooping Behavior on MCT Cluster Devices
        • 10.5.4.3 How Failovers are Handled for Layer 2 Multicast over MCT
        • 10.5.4.4 PIM-SM and PIM6-SM Snooping over MCT
        • 10.5.4.5 Forwarding Entries for PIM-SM and PIM6-SM Multicast Snooping
        • 10.5.4.6 Displaying Information for Multicast Snooping
        • 10.5.4.7 Multicast Snooping Configuration Example
    • 10.6 Layer 3 Behavior with MCT
      • 10.6.1 Layer 3 Unicast Forwarding over MCT
        • 10.6.1.1 Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Toward MCT Clients
        • 10.6.1.2 Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding From MCT Clients
      • 10.6.2 User-defined VRF Support over MCT
      • 10.6.3 VRRP or VRRP-E over an MCT-Enabled Network
      • 10.6.4 OSPF and BGP over an MCT-Enabled Network
      • 10.6.5 Layer 3 with MCT configuration considerations
      • 10.6.6 MCT Configuration for a Single-Level MCT Deployment
        • 10.6.6.1 MCT Configuration: RouterA
        • 10.6.6.2 MCT Configuration: RouterB
        • 10.6.6.3 MCT Configuration: S1-SW Device
      • 10.6.7 MCT Configuration with VRRP-E
        • 10.6.7.1 VRRP-E Configuration: Router A
        • 10.6.7.2 VRRP-E Configuration: Router B
      • 10.6.8 MCT Configuration with OSPF
      • 10.6.9 MCT Configuration with BGP
      • 10.6.10 PIM Over MCT Intermediate Router Functionality
        • 10.6.10.1 MCT Peer as Intermediate Upstream Router
        • 10.6.10.2 MCT Peer as Intermediate Downstream Router
        • 10.6.10.3 Load Sharing of Multicast Traffic by MCT-Cluster on CCEP Links
        • 10.6.10.4 Fast Convergence of Multicast Traffic
        • 10.6.10.5 Requirements for Multicast MCT
        • 10.6.10.6 Limitations
        • 10.6.10.7 Configuring Multicast Routing over MCT
    • 10.7 Displaying MCT information
      • 10.7.1 MAC clear Commands
    • 10.8 Single-Level MCT Configuration Example
      • 10.8.1 Client 1 Configuration
      • 10.8.2 Client 2 Configuration
      • 10.8.3 AGG-A (R1) Configuration
      • 10.8.4 AGG-B (R2) Configuration
    • 10.9 Two-Level MCT Configuration Example
      • 10.9.1 AGG-A (R1) Configuration
      • 10.9.2 AGG-B (R2) Configuration
      • 10.9.3 DIST-A (R3) Configuration
      • 10.9.4 DIST-B (R4) Configuration
    • 10.10 MCT Configuration Examples Using STP
      • 10.10.1 Configuring the Per-VLAN Spanning Tree on the MCT Clients Example
    • 10.11 STP Configuration Example on MCT Cluster Devices
      • 10.11.1 Configure the Per-VLAN Spanning Tree on the MCT Cluster Devices Example
  • 11 Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol
    • 11.1 Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol Overview
      • 11.1.1 MVRP with Per-VLAN STP and Per-VLAN RSTP
      • 11.1.2 MVRP Application Example
      • 11.1.3 MVRP Configuration Notes
        • 11.1.3.1 MVRP Limitations
      • 11.1.4 Configuring MVRP
        • 11.1.4.1 Configuration Example: Implementing MVRP
        • 11.1.4.2 Configuration Example: Implementing MVRP with Per-VLAN RSTP
  • 12 Spanning Tree Protocol
    • 12.1 STP overview
    • 12.2 Standard STP Parameter Configuration
      • 12.2.1 STP Parameters and Defaults
      • 12.2.2 Enabling or Disabling the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
      • 12.2.3 STP Protection Enhancement
      • 12.2.4 Changing STP Bridge and Port Parameters
      • 12.2.5 Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
      • 12.2.6 Displaying STP Information
    • 12.3 STP Feature Configuration
      • 12.3.1 Fast Port Span
        • 12.3.1.1 Disabling and Re-Enabling Fast Port Span
        • 12.3.1.2 Excluding Specific Ports from Fast Port Span
      • 12.3.2 Fast Uplink Span
        • 12.3.2.1 Active Uplink Port Failure
        • 12.3.2.2 Switchover to the Active Uplink Port
        • 12.3.2.3 Fast Uplink Span Rules for LAGs
      • 12.3.3 STP Configuration Examples
      • 12.3.4 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP)
        • 12.3.4.1 Bridges and Bridge Port Roles
        • 12.3.4.2 Edge Ports and Edge Port Roles
        • 12.3.4.3 Point-to-Point Ports
        • 12.3.4.4 Bridge Port States
        • 12.3.4.5 Edge Port and Non-Edge Port States
        • 12.3.4.6 Changes to Port Roles and States
        • 12.3.4.7 IEEE 802.1w Convergence in a Simple Topology
        • 12.3.4.8 Convergence after a Link Failure
        • 12.3.4.9 Convergence at Link Restoration
        • 12.3.4.10 Convergence in a Complex IEEE 802.1w Topology
        • 12.3.4.11 Propagation of Topology Change
        • 12.3.4.12 Compatibility of 802.1W with 802.1D
        • 12.3.4.13 Configuring 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
          • 12.3.4.13.1 Note Regarding Pasting 802.1W Settings into the Running Configuration
        • 12.3.4.14 Displaying RSTP (IEEE 802.1w) Information
      • 12.3.5 Single 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (SRSTP)
        • 12.3.5.1 Enabling 802.1W Single Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
        • 12.3.5.2 Displaying SRSTP Information
      • 12.3.6 Single Spanning Tree (SSTP)
        • 12.3.6.1 SSTP Defaults
        • 12.3.6.2 Enabling Single Spanning Tree Protocol
        • 12.3.6.3 Displaying SSTP Information
      • 12.3.7 STP per VLAN Group
        • 12.3.7.1 STP Load Balancing
        • 12.3.7.2 Configuring STP per VLAN Group
        • 12.3.7.3 Configuration Example for STP Load Sharing
      • 12.3.8 Spanning Tree Path Cost Support for 802.1D 2004
        • 12.3.8.1 Configuring Spanning Tree Path Cost Support for 802.1D 2004
        • 12.3.8.2 Displaying Spanning Tree 802.1D 2004 Path Cost Information
    • 12.4 PVST/PVST+ Compatibility
      • 12.4.1 Overview of PVST and PVST+
      • 12.4.2 Configuring PVST+ Support
        • 12.4.2.1 Enabling PVST+ Support Manually
      • 12.4.3 Displaying PVST+ Support Information
      • 12.4.4 PVST+ Configuration Examples
        • 12.4.4.1 Tagged Port Using Default VLAN 1 as its Port Native VLAN
        • 12.4.4.2 Untagged Port Using VLAN 2 as Port Native VLAN
      • 12.4.5 PVST+ Protect
    • 12.5 PVRST Compatibility
    • 12.6 BPDU Guard
      • 12.6.1 Enabling STP BPDU Guard
      • 12.6.2 Displaying the BPDU Guard Status
        • 12.6.2.1 BPDU Guard Status Example Configurations
      • 12.6.3 BPDU Guard Status Example Console Messages
    • 12.7 Root Guard
      • 12.7.1 Enabling STP Root Guard
      • 12.7.2 Displaying the STP Root Guard
      • 12.7.3 Displaying the Root Guard by VLAN
    • 12.8 Designated Protection
      • 12.8.1 Enabling Designated Protection on a Port
      • 12.8.2 Syslog Message for a Port in Designated Inconsistent State
    • 12.9 Packet InError Detection
      • 12.9.1 Configuring Packet InError Detection
      • 12.9.2 Syslog Message for Error-Disabled Port Due to inError Packets
    • 12.10 Error Disable Recovery
      • 12.10.1 Enabling an Error-Disabled Port Automatically
      • 12.10.2 Enabling an Error-Disabled Port Manually
      • 12.10.3 Setting the Recovery Interval
      • 12.10.4 Displaying the Error Disable Recovery State by Interface
      • 12.10.5 Displaying the Recovery State for All Conditions
      • 12.10.6 Displaying the Recovery State by Port Number and Cause
      • 12.10.7 Errdisable Syslog Messages
    • 12.11 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
      • 12.11.1 Multiple Spanning Tree Regions
      • 12.11.2 Configuration Notes
      • 12.11.3 Configuring MSTP Mode and Scope
      • 12.11.4 Reduced Occurrences of MSTP Reconvergence
        • 12.11.4.1 Example Application of MSTP Reconvergence
        • 12.11.4.2 Deleting a VLAN to MSTI Mapping
        • 12.11.4.3 Viewing the MSTP Configuration Digest
      • 12.11.5 Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
      • 12.11.6 MSTP+ Overview
      • 12.11.7 Configuring MSTP+
      • 12.11.8 Switching Between Non-MSTP, MSTP, and MSTP+ Modes
      • 12.11.9 Disabling MSTP on a Port
      • 12.11.10 Changing MSTP Port Parameters
      • 12.11.11 Forcing Ports to Transmit an MSTP BPDU
      • 12.11.12 Enabling MSTP on a Device
      • 12.11.13 Displaying MSTP Statistics
      • 12.11.14 Displaying MSTP Information for a Specified Instance
      • 12.11.15 Displaying MSTP Information for CIST Instance 0
      • 12.11.16 MSTP Root Guard
        • 12.11.16.1 Configuring MSTP Root Guard
        • 12.11.16.2 Displaying MSTP Root Guard Configuration
    • 12.12 xSTP Syslog for BPDU Threshold
      • 12.12.1 Displaying xSTP statistics
  • 13 VLANs
    • 13.1 VLAN Overview
    • 13.2 Default VLAN
    • 13.3 Displaying VLAN Information
    • 13.4 Layer 2 Port-based VLANs
      • 13.4.1 Configuring Port-Based VLANs on Device-A
      • 13.4.2 Configuring Port-Based VLANs on Device-B
      • 13.4.3 Configuring Port-Cased VLANs on Device-C
      • 13.4.4 Removing a Port-Based VLAN
    • 13.5 Moving Untagged Port Membership from One Non-Default VLAN to Another
    • 13.6 Removing VLANs from Physical Ports
    • 13.7 Assigning a Different VLAN ID to Default and Reserved VLANs
    • 13.8 Viewing Reassigned VLAN IDs for Reserved VLANs
    • 13.9 Add and Remove All Tagged VLANs
    • 13.10 Multi-Range VLANs
      • 13.10.1 Creating and Configuring a Multi-Range VLAN
      • 13.10.2 Displaying Multi-Range VLAN Information
    • 13.11 IEEE 802.1Q Tagging
      • 13.11.1 Support for 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) Tagging
    • 13.12 Spanning Tree Protocol
      • 13.12.1 Enable Spanning Tree on a VLAN
    • 13.13 Super-Aggregated VLANs
    • 13.14 LAG Interface and VLAN Membership
    • 13.15 Multiple VLAN Membership Rules
    • 13.16 Virtual Routing Interface Groups
    • 13.17 VLAN-Based Static MAC Entries Configuration
      • 13.17.1 Configuring a VLAN to Drop Static MAC Entries
    • 13.18 VLAN Groups
      • 13.18.1 Configuring a VLAN Group
      • 13.18.2 Displaying Information About VLAN Groups
      • 13.18.3 Displaying the VLAN Group Information
      • 13.18.4 Allocating Memory for More VLANs or Associated Ports
        • 13.18.4.1 Increasing the Number of Configurable VLANs or Port-to-VLAN Associations
    • 13.19 Topology Groups
      • 13.19.1 Master VLAN and Member VLANs
      • 13.19.2 Control Ports and Free Ports
      • 13.19.3 Topology Group Configuration Considerations
      • 13.19.4 Configuring a Topology Group
      • 13.19.5 Displaying STP Information
      • 13.19.6 Displaying Topology Group Information
    • 13.20 Aggregated VLANs (Tag Profiles)
      • 13.20.1 IEEE 802.1ad Tagging
        • 13.20.1.1 Tag Profile Configuration Rules
        • 13.20.1.2 Configuring Tag Profile
        • 13.20.1.3 Selective Q-in-Q
          • 13.20.1.3.1 802.1Q (Q-in-Q) BPDU Tunneling
            • 13.20.1.3.1.1 Configuring Q-in-Q BPDU Tunneling
      • 13.20.2 Example IEEE 802.1ad Configuration
      • 13.20.3 Configuration Notes for Aggregated VLANs
      • 13.20.4 Configuring Aggregated VLANs
        • 13.20.4.1 Complete CLI Examples for Aggregated VLANs
          • 13.20.4.1.1 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device A
          • 13.20.4.1.2 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device B
          • 13.20.4.1.3 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device C
          • 13.20.4.1.4 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device D
          • 13.20.4.1.5 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device E
          • 13.20.4.1.6 Commands for Configuring Aggregated VLANs on Device F
      • 13.20.5 Verifying the Aggregated VLAN Configuration
    • 13.21 Simultaneous Support for Tagged and Untagged VLANs
    • 13.22 VLAN Mapping
    • 13.23 Private VLAN Configuration
      • 13.23.1 Multiple Tagged and Untagged Support for PVLANs
      • 13.23.2 Configuration Notes for PVLANs and Standard VLANs
        • 13.23.2.1 Configuration Considerations for Isolated or Community PVLAN
      • 13.23.3 CLI Example for a General PVLAN Network
      • 13.23.4 Configuration Example for Implicit Dual-Mode PVLAN Network
      • 13.23.5 Multiple Promiscuous Ports Support in Private VLANs
        • 13.23.5.1 Mapping Secondary VLAN to Primary VLAN by Multiple Promiscuous Ports
      • 13.23.6 PVLAN Support Over LAG
  • VXLAN
    • 14 VXLAN
      • 14.1 VXLAN Gateway Overview
      • 14.2 MAC Learning
      • 14.3 Quality of Service Support
      • 14.4 Unsupported features
      • 14.5 VXLAN configuration considerations
      • 14.6 Inter-VLAN Routing Using an External Router with VXLAN VTEPs
      • 14.7 Configuring VXLAN
      • 14.8 Displaying VXLAN information
    • 15 VXLAN-related syslog messages
  • 16 Protected Port
    • 16.1 Protected Port Overview
    • 16.2 Configuring Protected Port

Metro Ring Protocol

In this section:

  1. Metro Ring Protocol Overview
  2. MRP Rings with Shared Interfaces (MRP Phase 2)
  3. MRP Rings Without Shared Interfaces (MRP Phase 1)
  4. Ring Initialization and Ring Health Packets (RHP) Processing
  5. How Ring Breaks are Detected and Healed
  6. MRP Topology Groups
  7. Metro Ring Protocol Diagnostics
  8. Metro Ring Protocol Configuration
  9. MRP CLI Example

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