Configuring Cluster Management Protocol Packets - HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual

Step
3. Configure the handshake
interval.
4. Configure the holdtime of a
switch.

Configuring cluster management protocol packets

By default, the destination MAC address of cluster management protocol packets (including NDP, NTDP
and HABP packets) is a multicast MAC address 0180-C200-000A, which IEEE reserved for later use.
Since some switches cannot forward the multicast packets with the destination MAC address of
0180-C200-000A, so cluster management packets cannot traverse these switches. For a cluster to work
normally in this case, you can modify the destination MAC address of a cluster management protocol
packet without changing the current networking.
The management switch periodically sends MAC address negotiation broadcast packets to advertise the
destination MAC address of the cluster management protocol packets.
When you configure the destination MAC address for cluster management protocol packets:
If the interval for sending MAC address negotiation broadcast packets is 0, the system
•
automatically sets it to 1 minute.
If the interval for sending MAC address negotiation broadcast packets is not 0, the interval remains
•
unchanged.
To configure the destination MAC address of the cluster management protocol packets:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enter cluster view.
3. Configure the
destination MAC
address for cluster
management protocol
packets.
4. Configure the interval for
sending MAC address
negotiation broadcast
packets.
Command
timer interval
holdtime hold-time
Command
system-view
cluster
cluster-mac mac-address
cluster-mac syn-interval
interval
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Remarks
Optional.
The default interval is 10 seconds.
Optional.
The default setting is 60 seconds.
Remarks
N/A
N/A
By default, the destination MAC address is
0180-C200-000A.
The following are the configurable MAC
addresses:
•
0180-C200-0000.
•
0180-C200-000A.
•
0180-C200-0020 through
0180-C200-002F.
•
010F-E200-0002.
Optional.
The default interval is one minute.