Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)
Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP) is supported on Dell Force10 platforms, as indicated by the characters that
appear under each of the command headings: E-Series, C-Series, S-Series, Z-Series, or S4810.
FRRP is a proprietary protocol for that offers fast convergence in a Layer 2 network without having to run the Spanning
Tree Protocol. The Resilient Ring Protocol is an efficient protocol that transmits a high-speed token across a ring to
verify the link status. All the intelligence is contained in the master node with practically no intelligence required of the
transit mode.
Important Points to Remember
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FRRP is media- and speed-independent.
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FRRP is a Dell Force10 proprietary protocol that does not interoperate with any other vendor.
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Spanning Tree must be disabled on both primary and secondary interfaces before Resilient Ring protocol is
enabled.
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A VLAN configured as the control VLAN for a ring cannot be configured as a control or member VLAN for any
other ring.
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Member VLANs across multiple rings are not supported in Master nodes.
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If multiple rings share one or more member VLANs, they cannot share any links between them.
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Each ring can have only one Master node; all others are Transit nodes.
clear frrp
Clear the FRRP statistics counters.
C-Series, E-Series, S-Series, Z-Series, S4810
Syntax
clear frrp [ring-id]
Parameters
ring-id
Defaults
none
Command Modes
EXEC
Command History
Version 8.3.11.1
Version 8.3.7.0
Version 8.2.1.0
(Optional) Enter the ring identification number. The range is 1 to 255.
Introduced on the Z9000.
Introduced on the S4810.
Introduced on the C-Series.
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