Enabling And Disabling Isl Trunking - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Enabling and disabling ISL trunking

You can enable or disable ISL Trunking for a single port or for an entire switch.When you execute the
commands portCfgTrunkPort or switchCfgTrunk to update the trunking configuration, the ports
for which the configuration applies are disabled and re-enabled with the new trunk configuration. As a
result, traffic through those ports could be disrupted.
To enable or disable ISL Trunking on one port
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the portCfgTrunkPort command. The format is:
portcfgtrunkport [slotnumber/]portnumber mode
slotnumber
portnumber
mode
The following example enables trunking on slot 1, port 3:
switch:admin> portcfgtrunkport 1/3 1
done.
switch:admin>
To enable or disable ISL Trunking for all of the ports on a switch
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the switchCfgTrunk command. The format is:
switchcfgtrunk mode
Mode 1 enables and mode 0 disables ISL Trunking for all ports on the switch.
The following example enables trunking all ports in the switch.
switch:admin> switchcfgtrunk 1
Committing configuration...done.
switch:admin>
Specifies the number of the slot in which the port blade containing the port is
located (this operand only required for switches with slots such as the SAN
Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director).
Specifies the number of the port on which you want to enable or disable
trunking.
Enables (1) or disables (0) trunking on the specified port.
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