Configuring The Dell Force10 Mxl For Fip-Snooping; Figure 8. Flowchart Overview Of Dell Force10 Mxl Configuration - Dell Force10 MXL Deployment Manual

Deploying FCoE (FIP Snooping) on Dell Force 10 MXL

Configuring the Dell Force10 MXL for FIP-Snooping

The Dell Force10 MXL switches will monitor FIP packets and will establish the proper filtering, and
priorities for the FCoE traffic that is passed through the configured links. To see an example of the full
configuration see Appendix-A - MXL
Figure 8.
Connect to
switch
feature fip-snooping
fip-snooping enable
protocol lldp
Service-class dynamic dot1p
Configure uplink FCF
switch facing ports
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/52
portmode hybrid
switchport
fip-snooping port-mode fcf
protocol lldp
no advertise dcbx-tlv ets-reco
dcbx port-role auto-upstream
no shutdown
Example.
Flowchart overview of Dell Force10 MXL configuration
Turn on FCoE
(fip-snooping
features) and
global settings
Configure VLAN interfaces
for switch and assign ports
interface Vlan 20
interface Vlan 1000
tagged TenGigabitEthernet 0/1,52
fip-snooping enable
no shutdown
Configure default
VLAN for switch
default vlan-id 20
Configure downlink
server facing ports
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/1
portmode hybrid
switchport
protocol lldp
dcbx port-role auto-downstream
spanning-tree pvst edge-port
no shutdown
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