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Establishing a Ring
Once you have configured EPSR on the switches, the following steps complete the EPSR ring:
1. The master node creates an EPSR Health message and sends it out the primary port. This
2. The first transit node receives the Health message on one of its two ring ports and, using
Note that transit nodes never generate Health messages, only receive them and forward
them with their switching hardware. This does not increment the transit node's Transmit:
Health counter. However, it does increment the Transmit counter in the show switch
port command.
The hardware filter also copies the Health message to the CPU. This increments the
transit node's Receive: Health counter. The CPU processes this message as required by
the state machines, but does not send the message anywhere because the switching
hardware has already done this.
3. The Health message continues around the rest of the transit nodes, being copied to the
4. The master node eventually receives the Health message on its secondary port. The
When the master node receives the Health message back on its secondary port, it resets
the Failover timer. If the Failover timer expires before the master node receives the Health
message back, it concludes that the ring must be broken.
Note that the master node does not send that particular Health message out again. If it
did, the packet would be continuously flooded around the ring. Instead, the master node
generates a new Health message when the Hello timer expires.
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increments the master node's Transmit: Health counter in the show epsr count
command.
a hardware filter, sends the message out its other ring port.
CPU and forwarded in the switching hardware.
master node's hardware filter copies the packet to the CPU (which increments the master
node's Receive: Health counter). Because the master received the Health message on its
secondary port, it knows that all links and nodes in the ring are up.
How EPSR Works
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