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XRN CONFIGURATION GUIDE

XRN Fabric

Several Expandable Resilient Networking (XRN) supported switches can be

Configuration

interconnected to form a fabric, in which each switch is a unit, the ports

 

connecting the units are called fabric ports, and the other ports that are used to

 

connect the fabric to users are called user ports. In this way, you can increase ports

 

of network devices and improve the reliability of user networks.

Network Diagram

Figure 71 Network diagram for XRN fabric configuration

 

 

 

IRF fabric

 

 

 

Switch A

 

 

 

 

User port

 

Fabric port

Switch B

Switch C

Networking and Configure unit ID, unit name, XRN fabric name, and fabric authentication mode Configuration for three switches to enable them to form an XRN fabric.

Requirements

The configuration details are as follows:

Unit IDs for Switch A, Switch B and Switch C are 1, 2 and 3 respectively;

Unit names of the three switches are Unit1, Unit2 and Unit3 respectively. The fabric name is hello;

Fabric authentication mode is simple and password is welcome.

n The Switch 5500Gs do not support the fabric authentication function.

Applicable Products

Product series

Software version

Hardware version

 

 

 

Switch 5500

Release V03.02.04

All versions

Switch 5500G

Release V03.02.04

All versions

Switch 4500

Release V03.03.00

All versions

 

 

 

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