Enabling The Cisco Trunking And Channeling Protocols; Enabling The F Port Trunking And Channeling Protocol; Configuring Trunk Mode And Vsan List; About Trunk Modes - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring Trunk Mode and VSAN List

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Enabling the Cisco Trunking and Channeling Protocols

To enable or disable the Cisco trunking and channeling protocol, follow these steps:
Command
Step 1
switch# config t
Step 2
switch(config)# trunk protocol enable
switch(config)#
switch(config)# no trunk protocol enable
switch(config)#

Enabling the F Port Trunking and Channeling Protocol

To enable or disable the F port trunking and channeling protocol, follow these steps:
Command
Step 1
switch# config tasf
Step 2
switch(config)# feature fport-channel-trunk
switch(config)#
switch(config)# no feature fport-channel-trunk
switch(config)#
The trunking protocols must be enabled to support trunking, and NPIV must be enabled on the core
Note
switch to activate a TF-TNP link. To enable NPIV, use the feature npiv command.
Configuring Trunk Mode and VSAN List
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About Trunk Modes

The default trunk mode for non-NPV switches is enabled on all Fibre Channel interfaces (port modes E,
F, FL, Fx, ST, and SD) and disabled for NPV switches.
Trunk mode can be configured as 'on' (enabled), 'off' (disabled), or 'auto' (automatic).The trunk mode
configuration on both ends of an ISL determines the trunking state of the link and the resulting port
modes, (see
Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide
5-8
About Trunk Modes, page 5-8
Configuring Trunk Mode, page 5-9
About Trunk-Allowed VSAN Lists and VF_IDs, page 5-9
Configuring an Allowed-Active List of VSANs, page 5-12
Table 5-2).
Chapter 5 Configuring Trunking
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Enables the Cisco PTP trunking protocol
(default).
Disables the Cisco PTP trunking protocol.
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Enables the F port trunking and channeling
protocol (default).
Disables the F port trunking and channeling
protocol.
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