Creating A Frame Redirect Zone; Deleting A Frame Redirect Zone; Viewing Redirect Zones; Figure 12 Single Host And Target - Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 Administrator's Manual

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Figure 12
destination to the target. The port where the appliance is attached to the host switch acts as the
virtual initiator and the port where the appliance is attached to the target switch is the virtual
target.

Creating a frame redirect zone

The first time this command is run the following zone objects are created by default:
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1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the zone
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the frame redirect zones to the defined configuration.
Example of creating a frame redirect zone.
The following example creates an RD Zone, given a host (10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10), target
(20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20), VI (30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30), and VT (40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40):

Deleting a frame redirect zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the zone
3. Enter the zone
Example of deleting a frame redirect zone.

Viewing redirect zones

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the cfgShow command.
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Single Host and Target
demonstrates the flow of frame redirection traffic. A frame starts at the host with a
The base zone object, "red_______base".
The RD zone configuration, "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg".
rdcreate command.
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switch:admin>zone --rdcreate 10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10 20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20 \
30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30 40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40 restartable noFCR
rdDelete command to remove the base RD zone, "red_______base".
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When the base zone is removed, the RD zone configuration "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg" is removed as
well.
cfgSave command to save changes to the defined configuration.
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switch:admin> zone --rddelete \
red_0917_10_10_10_10_10_10_10_10_20_20_20_20_20_20_20_20
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