Enabling And Disabling Trunking; Enabling And Disabling Trunking Using The Cli - HP StorageWorks MSA 2/8 - SAN Switch User Manual

Enabling and Disabling Trunking

Trunking can be enabled and disabled for an individual port or an entire switch,
through either the command line interface (CLI) or Web Tools.

Enabling and Disabling Trunking Using the CLI

Telnet and serial sessions can be used to enable and disable trunking.
To enable or disable trunking for an individual port:
1. Open a CLI connection to the switch to be modified.
2. Log into the switch as Admin. The default password is password.
3. Enter the following:
Example. To enable trunking for port 3 in slot 1:
To enable or disable trunking for all the ports on a switch:
1. Open a CLI connection to the switch to be modified.
2. Log into the switch as Admin. The default password is password.
3. Enter the following:
Example. To enable all ports on the switch for trunking:
ISL Trunking Version 3.1.x/4.1.x User Guide
portcfgtrunkport slotnumber/portnumber 1|0
where:
slotnumber is the number of the slot to which the port belongs; only
required for the Core Switch 2/64.
portnumber is the port number on which to enable or disable trunking.
1|0 is the value to enable or disable trunking; specify 1 to enable this
port for trunking, or 0 to disable this port for trunking.
switch:admin> portcfgtrunkport 1/3 1
done.
switch:admin>
switchcfgtrunk <1|0>
where:
<1|0> enables or disables trunking; specify 1 to enable trunking on all ports
in the switch, or 0 to disable trunking on all ports in the switch.
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