Configuring Basic Irf Settings; Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Accessing The Irf Fabric To Verify The Configuration - H3C S5830V2 Series Installation Manual

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Configuring basic IRF settings

After you install the IRF member switches, power on the switches, and log in to each IRF member
switch (see H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide) to
configure their member IDs, member priorities, and IRF port bindings.
Follow these guidelines when you configure the switches:
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Assign the master switch higher member priority than any other switch.
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Bind physical ports to IRF port 1 on one switch and to IRF port 2 on the other switch. You
perform IRF port binding before or after connecting IRF physical ports depending on the
software release.
•
To bind the ports on an interface card to an IRF port, you must install the interface card first. For
how to install an interface card, see H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 Switch Series Interface Cards
User Guide.
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Execute the display irf configuration command to verify the basic IRF settings.
For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 Switch
Series IRF Configuration Guide.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Use SFP+/QSFP+ DAC cables or SFP+/QSFP+ transceiver modules and fibers to connect the IRF
member switches as planned.
NOTE:
Wear an ESD wrist strap when you connect SFP+ DAC cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and
fibers. For more information, see SFP/SFP+/XFP Transceiver Modules Installation Guide and
QSFP+ Transceiver Modules/Cables Installation Guide.

Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF settings and
connecting IRF ports:
Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
1.
Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure the IRF fabric and the
2.
remote network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet, web, or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. (See
3.
H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide.)
Verify that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
4.
Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in
5.
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Table 5.