Configuring High Availability VLANs

High Availability VLANs Specifications

The table below lists specifications for high availability VLAN software.

RFCs Supported

2674—Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges

 

 

with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual

 

LAN Extensions

 

 

 

IEEE Standards Supported

802.1D—Media Access Control Bridges

 

802.1w—Rapid Reconfiguration (802.1D Amend-

 

ment 2)

 

802.1s—Multiple Spanning Trees (802.1Q Amend-

 

ment 3)

 

 

 

Maximum high availability VLANs per switch

32

 

 

 

 

Switch ports eligible for high availability VLAN

Fixed ports on second-generation Network Interface

assignment.

(NI) modules.

 

 

 

Switch port not eligible for high availability

Mobile, 802.1Q tagged, link aggregate, Learned Port

VLAN assignment.

Security (LPS), mirrored or mirroring ports, and all

 

ports on first-generation NI modules.

 

 

 

Spanning Tree modes supported.

Flat (one Spanning Tree instance per switch).

 

1x1 (one Spanning Tree instance per VLAN).

 

 

 

CLI Command Prefix Recognition

All high availability VLAN configuration commands

 

with the vlan prefix support prefix recognition. (How-

 

ever, the show mac-address-table port-mac com-

 

mand does not support prefix recognition.) See the

 

“Using the CLI” chapter in the OmniSwitch 7700/

 

7800/8800 Switch Management Guide for more infor-

 

mation.

 

 

 

High Availability Default Values

The table below lists default values for high availability VLAN software.

Parameter Description

Command

Default Value/Comments

 

 

 

Ingress ports assigned.

vlan port-mac ingress-port

No ingress ports assigned.

 

 

 

Egress ports assigned.

vlan port-mac egress-port

No egress ports assigned.

 

 

 

MAC addresses assigned.

mac-address-table port-mac

No MAC addresses assigned.

 

vlan mac

 

 

 

 

high availability VLAN ingress

vlan port-mac bandwidth

15 Mbps

Flood queue bandwidth

 

 

 

 

 

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