S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE Chapter 1 Setting Loopback Detection 1.1 Intro of Loopback Detection The loopback in a network may trigger the repeated transmission of broadcast, multicast or unicast packets, wasting network resources and even leaving network breakdown. To avoid the above-mentioned troubles, it is necessary to provide a detection mechanism to promptly notify users of detecting network connection and configuration at the occurrence of loopback and to take troubled ports under control.
S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE 0x8100, VLAN tag type TPID Specific value of the VLAN tag, priority, VLAN ID TYPE Protocol type, which ranges from 0 to 9001 CODE Protocol sub-type, which represents loopback detection and is 0x0001 VERSION 0x0000 (currently reserved)
S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE [no] loopback-detection Sets loopback detection globally. 1.3.2 Configuring Port Loop Check If you want to enable or disable loopback detection on a specified port, you should first enable loopback detection globally. Command Purpose [no] loopback-detection enable Configures port loopback detection.
S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE transmission time; if the transmission time is set to be a very small value, you'd better set the recovery time to be at least 10 seconds longer than the transmission time. 1.3.5 Configuring Port Control...
S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE When a port is up and port loopback detection takes effect, the command above is used to set whether loopback exists on this port. When a port is in shutdown state, this port is not suitable to set to have loopback, for the port in shutdown state cannot forward packets.
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S5500-48T8SP LOOPBACK DETECTION CONFIGURATION GUIDE Configuration of interface GigaEthernet0/1: switchport trunk vlan-untagged 1-3 switchport mode trunk loopback-detection enable loopback-detection control block loopback-detection vlan-control 1-5 Global Configuration loopback-detection vlan 1-3 Switch S2: Configuration of interface GigaEthernet0/1: switchport mode trunk Configuration of interface GigaEthernet0/2:...
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