Brocade Communications Systems 6650 Basic port parameter configuration, Assigning a port name

Basic port parameter configuration 2

You can configure the Brocade device to use a different MAC address for Layer 2 management traffic than for switched traffic. When you issue the use-local-management-mac, the Brocade device changes a local bit in the first port MAC address and uses this MAC address for management traffic. The second bit of the first port MAC address is changed to 2. For example, if the MAC address is 748e.f80c.5f40 after the feature is enabled, the switch uses 728e.f80c.5f40 for management functions. Switched traffic will continue to use the first port MAC address without the local bit setting.

Example

Brocade(config)# use-local-management-mac

Brocade(config)# write memory

Brocade(config)# end

Brocade# reload

Syntax: [no] use-local-management-mac

NOTE

You must save the configuration and reload the software to place the change into effect.

NOTE

This feature is only available for the switch code. It is not available for router code.

Basic port parameter configuration

The procedures in this section describe how to configure the port parameters shown in Table 4.

All Brocade ports are pre-configured with default values that allow the device to be fully operational at initial startup without any additional configuration. However, in some cases, changes to the port parameters may be necessary to adjust to attached devices or other network requirements.

Assigning a port name

A port name can be assigned to help identify interfaces on the network. You can assign a port name to physical ports, virtual interfaces, and loopback interfaces.

To assign a name to a port.

Brocade(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/1

Brocade(config-if-e10000-1/1/1)# port-name Marsha

Syntax: port-name <text>

The <text> parameter is an alphanumeric string. The name can be up to 64 characters long. The name can contain blanks. You do not need to use quotation marks around the string, even when it contains blanks.

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