Fefd State Changes - Dell S4048–ON Configuration Manual

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FEFD State Changes

FEFD has two operational modes, Normal and Aggressive.

When you enable Normal mode on an interface and a far-end failure is detected, no intervention is required to reset the interface to bring it

back to an FEFD operational state. When you enable Aggressive mode on an interface in the same state, manual intervention is required to

reset the interface.

FEFD enabled systems (comprised of one or more interfaces) automatically switches between four different states: Idle, Unknown, Bi-

directional, and Err-disabled.

An interface on which FEFD is not configured is in Normal mode by default.

After you enable FEFD on an interface, it transitions to the Unknown state and sends an FEFD packet to the remote end of the link.

When the local interface receives the echoed packet from the remote end, the local interface transitions to the Bi-directional state.

If the FEFD enabled system is configured to use FEFD in Normal mode and neighboring echoes are not received after three intervals,

(you can set each interval can be set between 3 and 300 seconds) the state changes to unknown.

If the FEFD system has been set to Aggressive mode and neighboring echoes are not received after three intervals, the state changes

to Err-disabled. You must manually reset all interfaces in the Err-disabled state using the fefd reset [interface] command in

EXEC privilege mode (it can be done globally or one interface at a time) before the FEFD enabled system can become operational

Table 49. State Change When Configuring FEFD

Link Failure

Link Failure

Important Points to Remember

FEFD enabled ports are subject to an 8 to 10 second delay during an RPM failover before becoming operational.

You can enable FEFD globally or on a per-interface basis. Interface FEFD configurations override global FEFD configurations.

Dell Networking OS supports FEFD on physical Ethernet interfaces only, excluding the management interface.

FEFD is not supported on Fibre Channel and copper Ethernet ports.

Remote State

Err-disabled

Bi-directional

Locally disabled Unknown

Locally disabled Err-disabled

Local Protocol

Remote Admin