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When link switching occurs in the Smart Link group, MAC forwarding entries and ARP entries of
each device in the network may be out of date. In order to guarantee correct packet transmission,
you must enable the Smart Link device to send flush messages to notify the other devices in the
network to refresh their own MAC forwarding entries and ARP entries. In this case, all the uplink
devices must be capable of identifying flush messages from the Smart Link group and refreshing
MAC forwarding entries and ARP entries.
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On a Smart Link–enabled device, if a port is blocked due to link failure, the port remains blocked
after the link recovers from the failure, and does not preempt the traffic resource. Therefore, the
traffic stays stable. The port does not come into the forwarding state until the next link switching.
Configuring Smart Link
Before configuring a member port of a Smart Link group, you must:
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Disable the port to avoid loops, thus preventing broadcast storm.
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Disable STP on the port.
After completing the configuration, you need to enable the Ethernet ports disabled before configuring
the Smart Link group.
Configuration Tasks
Table 1-1
Smart Link configuration tasks
Task
Remarks
Create a Smart Link group
Add member ports to the Smart Link group
Configuring a Smart Link
Device
Enable the function of sending flush messages in the
specified control VLAN
Required
Configuring Associated
Devices
Enable the function of processing flush messages
received from the specified control VLAN
Required
Configuring a Smart Link Device
A Smart Link device refers to a device on which Smart Link is enabled and a Smart Link group is
configured, and that sends flush messages from the specified control VLAN. A member port of a Smart
Link group can be either an Ethernet port or a manually-configured or static LACP aggregation group.
You can configure a port or a link aggregation group as a member of a Smart Link group.
Table 1-2
Configure Smart Link (with ports as the members of the Smart Link group)
Operation
Command
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
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