Connecting Icx 6610 Devices In The Backbone; Connecting A Peripheral Device To An Icx 6610 And To Another Peripheral Device - Brocade Communications Systems ICX 6430 Hardware Installation Manual

Connecting ICX 6610 devices in the backbone

ports are in VLAN 12 and 13. Such an arrangement avoids flooding packets in VLAN 13 to substack 1,
and also avoids flooding packets in VLAN 10 and 11 to substack 2.
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Connecting ICX 6610 devices in the backbone
The figure below shows how to connect ICX 6610 devices in a mixed stack backbone using both ports
(ports 1 and 2) in trunk 0 of each ICX 6610 device. Ports 1 and 2 in the top device connect to ports 1
and 2 in the bottom device, respectively.
FIGURE 38 Connecting ICX 6610 devices in the backbone
Connecting a peripheral device to an ICX 6610 and to another
peripheral device
The figure below shows how to connect an ICX 6610 device in the backbone to an ICX 6450
peripheral device. It also shows how to connect two ICX 6450 peripheral devices to each other. Both
ports in each ICX 6450 trunk are used.
One trunk (ports 1 and 2) in the middle ICX 6450 device are used for the upstream link to the ICX
6610 device. The other trunk (ports 3 and 4) in the middle ICX 6450 device is used for the downstream
link to the second ICX 6450 device.
The ports or trunk on an ICX 6610 device that connect to a peripheral device are called peripheral
ports or a peripheral trunk, because they link to ICX 6450 peripheral devices. The first port in a
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A ring topology is more resilient than a linear topology.
If there are two backbone devices, link substacks to both backbone devices.
To prevent traffic congestion and avoid potential latency issues, keep substacks small --
especially in linear topologies.
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