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Example of Ethernet OAM Link Fault Management Configuration

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OS for EX Series Ethernet Switches, Release 10.3
Discovery and Link Monitoring
The discovery process is triggered automatically when OAM is enabled on the interface.
The discovery process permits Ethernet interfaces to discover and monitor the peer
on the link if it also supports the IEEE 802.3ah standard. You can specify the discovery
mode used for IEEE 802.3ah OAM support. In active mode, the interface discovers and
monitors the peer on the link if the peer also supports IEEE 802.3ah OAM functionality.
In passive mode, the peer initiates the discovery process. After the discovery process
has been initiated, both sides participate in discovery. The switch performs link
monitoring by sending periodic OAM protocol data units (PDUs) to advertise OAM
mode, configuration, and capabilities.
You can specify the number of OAM PDUs that an interface can miss before the link
between peers is considered down.
Remote Fault Detection
Remote fault detection uses flags and events. Flags are used to convey the following:
Link Fault means a loss of signal, Dying Gasp means an unrecoverable condition such
as a power failure, and Critical Event means an unspecified vendor-specific critical
event. You can specify the periodic OAM PDU sending interval for fault detection.The
EX Series switch uses the Event Notification OAM PDU to notify the remote OAM device
when a problem is detected. You can specify the action to be taken by the system
when the configured link-fault event occurs.
Remote Loopback Mode
Remote loopback mode ensures link quality between the switch and a remote peer
during installation or troubleshooting. In this mode, when the interface receives a frame
that is not an OAM PDU or a pause frame, it sends it back on the same interface on
which it was received. The link appears to be in the active state. You can use the returned
loopback acknowledgement to test delay, jitter, and throughput.
Junos OS can place a remote DTE into loopback mode (if remote loopback mode is
supported by the remote DTE). When you place a remote DTE into loopback mode,
the interface receives the remote loopback request and puts the interface into remote
loopback mode. When the interface is in remote loopback mode, all frames except
OAM PDUs are looped back without any changes made to the frames. OAM PDUs
continue to be sent and processed.
Configuring Ethernet OAM Link Fault Management (CLI Procedure) on page 3729
Example: Configuring Ethernet OAM Link Fault Management on EX Series Switches
on page 3727
Example: Configuring Ethernet OAM Link Fault Management on EX Series
Switches on page 3727
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