Chapter 15 Configuring Resilient Packet Ring on the ML-Series Card

Configuring RPR

 

 

 

An SPR interface is configured similarly to a EtherChannel (port-channel) interface. Instead of using the

 

 

 

 

channel-groupcommand to define the members, you use the spr-intf-idcommand. Like the

 

 

 

 

port-channel interface, you configure the virtual SPR interface instead of the physical POS interface. An

 

 

 

 

SPR interface is considered a trunk port, and like all trunk ports, subinterfaces must be configured for

 

 

 

 

the SPR interface for it to join a bridge group.

 

 

 

 

The physical POS interfaces on the ML-Series card are the only members eligible for the SPR interface.

 

 

 

 

One POS port is associated with the SONET circuit heading east around the ring from the node, and the

 

 

 

 

other POS port is associated with the circuit heading west. When the SPR interface is used and the POS

 

 

 

 

ports are associated, RPR encapsulation is used on the SONET payload.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caution

In configuring an SPR, if one ML-Series card is not configured with an SPR interface, but valid STS

 

 

 

 

circuits connect this ML-Series card to the other ML-Series cards in the SPR, no traffic will flow

 

 

 

 

between the properly configured ML-Series cards in the SPR, and no alarms will indicate this condition.

 

 

 

 

Cisco recommends that you configure all of the ML-Series cards in an SPR before sending traffic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caution

Do not use native VLANs for carrying traffic with RPR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

RPR on the ML-Series card is only supported with the default LEX encapsulation, a special

 

 

 

 

CISCO-EOS-LEX encapsulation for use with Cisco ONS Ethernet line cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RPR needs to be provisioned on each ML-Series card that is in the RPR. To provision RPR, perform the

 

 

 

 

following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Command

Purpose

 

Step 1

 

 

 

 

Router(config)# bridge irb

Enables the Cisco IOS software to both route and bridge

 

 

 

 

 

a given protocol on separate interfaces within a single

 

 

 

 

 

ML-Series card.

 

Step 2

 

 

 

 

Router(config)# interface spr 1

Creates the SPR interface on the ML-Series card or

 

 

 

 

 

enters the SPR interface configuration mode. The only

 

 

 

 

 

valid SPR number is 1.

 

Step 3

 

 

 

 

Router(config-if)# spr station-id

Configures a station ID. The user must configure a

 

 

 

 

station-ID-number

different number for each SPR interface that attaches to

 

 

 

 

 

the RPR. Valid station ID numbers range from 1 to 254.

 

Step 4

 

 

 

 

Router(config-if)# spr wrap

(Optional) Sets the RPR ring wrap mode to either wrap

 

 

 

 

{ immediate delayed }

traffic the instant it detects a SONET path alarm or to

 

 

 

 

 

wrap traffic after the delay, which gives the SONET

 

 

 

 

 

protection time to register the defect and declare the link

 

 

 

 

 

down. Use immediate if RPR is running over

 

 

 

 

 

unprotected SONET circuits. Use delayed for

 

 

 

 

 

bidirectional line switched rings (BLSR), path

 

 

 

 

 

protection, multiplex section-shared protection ring

 

 

 

 

 

(MS-SPRing), or SNCP protected circuits.

 

 

 

 

 

The default setting is immediate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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