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Preface The H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 documentation set includes 10 command references, which describe the commands and command syntax options available for the H3C S5830V2 & S5820V2 Switch Series. The IRF Command Reference describes IRF configuration commands for creating an IRF fabric. It covers the commands for binding physical ports to an IRF port, configuring the member switch ID and priority, and detecting and maintaining the IRF link.
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Conventions This section describes the conventions used in this documentation set. Command conventions Convention Description Boldface Bold text represents commands and keywords that you enter literally as shown. Italic Italic text represents arguments that you replace with actual values. Square brackets enclose syntax choices (keywords or arguments) that are optional. Braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical bars, from which { x | y | ...
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Command references commands. Obtaining documentation You can access the most up-to-date H3C product documentation on the World Wide Web at http://www.h3c.com. Click the links on the top navigation bar to obtain different categories of product documentation: [Technical Support & Documents > Technical Documents] –...
IRF commands display irf Use display irf to display IRF fabric information, including the member ID, role, priority, bridge MAC address, and description of each IRF member. Syntax display irf Views Any view Predefined user roles network-admin network-operator Examples # Display IRF fabric information. <Sysname>...
Field Description CPU-MAC MAC address of the CPU in the device. Description you have configured for the member device. • If no description is configured, this field displays a dashed line (-----). Description • If the description exceeds the maximum number of characters that can be displayed, an ellipsis (…) is displayed in place of the exceeding text.
MemberID NewID IRF-Port1 IRF-Port2 Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/25 Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/26 Ten-GigabitEthernet5/0/25 Ten-GigabitEthernet5/0/26 Ten-GigabitEthernet5/0/27 Ten-GigabitEthernet5/0/28 Ten-GigabitEthernet10/0/25 Ten-GigabitEthernet10/0/26 Ten-GigabitEthernet10/0/27 Ten-GigabitEthernet10/0/28 Table 2 Command output Field Description MemberID Current member ID of the device. NewID Member ID assigned to the device. This member ID takes effect at reboot. Physical ports bound to IRF port 1.
Table 3 Command output Field Description IRF-Port1 Information about IRF port 1, including its link state and neighbor. IRF-Port2 Information about IRF port 2, including its link state and neighbor. MemberID IRF member ID. Link state of the IRF port: •...
To display the load sharing mode used on each IRF port in the IRF fabric, specify the irf-port keyword but not any IRF port. To display the load sharing mode used on a specific IRF port, specify both the irf-port keyword and the member-id/port-number argument.
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Syntax display mad [ verbose ] Views Any view Predefined user roles network-admin network-operator Parameters verbose: Displays detailed MAD information. If this keyword is not specified, the command only displays whether a MAD mechanism is enabled. Examples # Display brief MAD information. <Sysname>...
irf auto-update enable Use irf auto-update enable to enable the software auto-update function for propagating software images of the master in an IRF fabric to all its members. Use undo irf auto-update enable to disable the software auto-update function. Syntax irf auto-update enable undo irf auto-update enable Default...
Views Any view Predefined user roles network-admin Parameters domain-id: Specifies a domain ID for the IRF fabric. The value range is 0 to 4294967295. Usage guidelines One IRF fabric forms one IRF domain. IRF uses IRF domain IDs to uniquely identify IRF fabrics and prevent IRF fabrics from interfering with one another.
When the IRF link changes from down to up, the link layer immediately reports the event to the IRF • fabric. Examples # Set the IRF link down report delay to 300 milliseconds. <Sysname> system-view [Sysname] irf link-delay 300 irf mac-address persistent Use irf mac-address persistent to configure IRF bridge MAC persistence so the IRF fabric continues using the bridge MAC address of the old master as its bridge MAC address for a period of time after a master re-election.
Examples # Enable the IRF bridge MAC address to persist forever. <Sysname> system-view [Sysname] irf mac-address persistent always irf member description Use irf member description to configure a description for an IRF member. Use undo irf member description to restore the default. Syntax irf member member-id description text undo irf member member-id description...
Predefined user roles network-admin Parameters member-id: Specifies an IRF member ID. priority: Sets priority, in the range of 1 to 32. The greater the priority value, the higher the priority. A member with higher priority is more likely to be the master. Usage guidelines Change member priority assignment to affect the maser election result.
Parameters member-id: Specifies the ID of an IRF member. new-member-id: Assigns a new ID to the IRF member. Usage guidelines CAUTION: Changing the IRF member ID of a device can cause losses of member ID related configurations, including settings on physical ports, at reboot. To have the new ID take effect, you must reboot the IRF member.
Usage guidelines To set up an IRF link between two devices, you must enter IRF port view to bind physical ports to the IRF port used by each device for IRF connection. Before removing all port bindings on an IRF port, shut down all its physical ports. Examples # Bind Ten-GigabitEthernet 3/0/48 to IRF port 3/1.
If you configure the global load sharing mode multiple times, the last configuration takes effect. You can also configure a port-specific load sharing mode for an IRF port in IRF port view. An IRF port preferentially uses the port-specific load sharing mode. If no port-specific load sharing mode is available, it uses the global load sharing mode.
An IRF port preferentially uses the port-specific load sharing mode. If no port-specific load sharing mode is available, it uses the global load sharing mode. Examples # Configure a port-specific load sharing mode for IRF port 1/1 to distribute traffic based on destination MAC address.
[Sysname] irf-port 1/2 [Sysname-irf-port1/2] port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/27 Info : You are recommended to save the configuration now; otherwise, it will be lost after system reboot. [Sysname-irf-port1/2] quit [Sysname] interface ten-gigabitEthernet 1/0/27 [Sysname-Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/27] undo shutdown [Sysname-Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/27] quit # Save the configuration so the IRF port settings can take effect after the device reboots. [Sysname] save The current configuration will be written to the device.
Examples # Enable ARP MAD on VLAN-interface 3. <Sysname> system-view [Sysname] interface vlan-interface 3 [Sysname-Vlan-interface3] mad arp enable You need to assign a domain ID (range: 0-4294967295) [Current domain is: 0]: 1 The assigned domain ID is: 1 Related commands irf domain mad nd enable Use mad nd enable to enable ND MAD.
IRF ports and those manually configured to not shut down. If a port must be kept in up state for special purposes such as telnet connection, exclude it from the shutdown action. To avoid problems, H3C recommends excluding only the one used for Telnet for the management purpose.
Usage guidelines When MAD detects that an IRF fabric has split into multiple IRF fabrics, only the one whose master has the lowest member ID among all the masters can still forward traffic. All the other fabrics are set in Recovery state and cannot forward traffic.
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Examples # Bind Ten-GigabitEthernet 3/0/47 and Ten-GigabitEthernet 3/0/48 to IRF port 3/1 on IRF member 3. Because these two ports belong to the same group as ports Ten-GigabitEthernet 3/0/45 and Ten-GigabitEthernet 3/0/46, you must shut down these two ports when you shut down the two IRF physical ports and bring up these two ports when you bring up the two IRF physical ports.
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