Dell Force10 MXL Deployment Manual page 45

Deploying FCoE (FIP Snooping) on Dell Force 10 MXL
dcbx port-role auto-upstream – with this command the port-role is established as a
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dcbx capable upstream port to communicate with top-of-rack FCF switches such as the
Cisco Nexus 5000 series.
no shutdown – configures the port as active.
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exit – exit from interface configuration mode
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interface port-channel 5 – this moves into the port-channel 5 configuration
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portmode hybrid - configuring portmode hybrid will allow for the native VLAN untagged,
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and a tagged VLAN to exist on the port together. This is similar to switchport mode trunk in
industry standard CLI.
 Switchport - this configures the port as a layer 2 port.
fip-snooping port-mode fcf– enables the port for fip-snooping from an FCF connection
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 no shutdown
exit – exit the interface configuration
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interface Vlan 20 – Initializes VLAN 20 for use.
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 exit – exits interface configuration mode
interface Vlan 1000 – Initializes VLAN 1000 for use. This VLAN will be the FCoE VLAN that will
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pass the storage traffic after the intial FIP negotiations occur on the native or default VLAN.
tagged TenGigabitEthernet 0/1-3 – This adds these ports to the tagged VLAN 1000.
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 tagged Port-channel 5
fip-snooping enable – Enables FIP-snooping for this VLAN which will set all ports involved
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to have MTU or Jumbo Frames (mini) of size 2500
no shutdown – activates VLAN 1000.
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 exit – exits interface configuration mode
service-class dynamic dot1p – This sets the switch to globally honor dot1p priorities for traffic
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on the switch.
feature fip-snooping – This configures the global enablement of the FIP-Snooping feature on
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the switch.
protocol lldp – Sets the global enablement of LLDP on the switch.
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exit – exit from configuration mode
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Validation
Follow the same validation steps as mentioned with the single link steps
configuration is working correctly. The ideal method for troubleshooting or validation is to take one
link at a time.
to ensure that this
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