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How Monitor Link
Works
Figure 260
Network diagram for a Monitor Link group implementation
As shown in Figure 260, the devices Switch C and Switch D are connected to the
uplink device Switch E. Switch C is configured with a Monitor Link group, where
Ethernet2/0/1 is the uplink port, while Ethernet2/0/2 and Ethernet2/0/3 are the
downlink ports. Switch A is configured with a Smart Link group, where
Ethernet2/0/1 is the master port and Ethernet2/0/2 is the slave port.
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If Switch C is not configured with Monitor Link group, when the link for the
uplink port Ethernet2/0/1 on Switch C fails, the links in the Smart Link group
are not switched because the link for the master port Ethernet2/0/1 of Switch
A configured with Smart Link group operates normally. Actually, however, the
traffic on Switch A cannot be up-linked to Switch E through the link of
Ethernet2/0/1.
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If Switch C is configured with Monitor Link group and Monitor Link group
detects that the link for the uplink port Ethernet2/0/1 fails, all the downlink
ports in the group are shut down; therefore, Ethernet2/0/3 on Switch C is
blocked. Now, Smart Link group configured on Switch A detects that a link
fault occurs on the master port Ethernet2/0/1. Then, Smart Link immediately
activates the slave port Ethernet2/0/2 so that traffic is switched to the backup
link.
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Currently, member ports of a Monitor Link group cannot be dynamic link
aggregation groups.
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If the uplink or downlink port in the Monitor Link group is a link aggregation
group, you cannot directly delete this aggregation group or change this
aggregation group into a dynamic aggregation group. To delete this
aggregation group, you must first unbind this aggregation group from the
Monitor Link.
Configuring Monitor
Link
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Before configuring a Monitor Link group, you must create a Monitor Link group
and configure member ports for it. A Monitor Link group consists of an uplink port
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Switch A
Switch B
Eth 2/ 0 / 1
Eth 2/0 / 2
Switch C
Switch D
Switch E
Eth 2/ 0 / 1
Eth 2/ 0 / 2
Eth 2/ 0 / 3
Eth 2 / 0 / 1
Eth 1 / 0 / 2
Eth 2 / 0/ 11
Eth 2 / 0 / 12
Summary of Contents for Switch 7754
Page 32: ...32 CHAPTER 1 CLI OVERVIEW ...
Page 70: ...70 CHAPTER 5 LOGGING IN USING MODEM ...
Page 76: ...76 CHAPTER 7 LOGGING IN THROUGH NMS ...
Page 86: ...86 CHAPTER 9 CONFIGURATION FILE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 120: ...120 CHAPTER 13 ISOLATE USER VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 126: ...126 CHAPTER 14 SUPER VLAN ...
Page 136: ...136 CHAPTER 16 IP PERFORMANCE CONFIGURATION ...
Page 152: ...152 CHAPTER 17 IPX CONFIGURATION ...
Page 164: ...164 CHAPTER 19 QINQ CONFIGURATION ...
Page 172: ...172 CHAPTER 21 SHARED VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 182: ...182 CHAPTER 22 PORT BASIC CONFIGURATION ...
Page 198: ...198 CHAPTER 24 PORT ISOLATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 208: ...208 CHAPTER 25 PORT SECURITY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 224: ...224 CHAPTER 27 DLDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 232: ...232 CHAPTER 28 MAC ADDRESS TABLE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 240: ...240 CHAPTER 29 CENTRALIZED MAC ADDRESS AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 280: ...280 CHAPTER 30 MSTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 348: ...348 CHAPTER 35 IS IS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 408: ...408 CHAPTER 39 802 1X CONFIGURATION ...
Page 412: ...412 CHAPTER 40 HABP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 422: ...422 CHAPTER 41 MULTICAST OVERVIEW ...
Page 426: ...426 CHAPTER 42 GMRP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 480: ...480 CHAPTER 47 PIM CONFIGURATION ...
Page 506: ...506 CHAPTER 48 MSDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 552: ...552 CHAPTER 51 TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 570: ...570 CHAPTER 53 HA CONFIGURATION ...
Page 582: ...582 CHAPTER 54 ARP CONFIGURATION SwitchA arp protective down recover interval 200 ...
Page 622: ...622 CHAPTER 58 DHCP RELAY AGENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 684: ...684 CHAPTER 61 QOS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 718: ...718 CHAPTER 63 CLUSTER ...
Page 738: ...738 CHAPTER 67 UDP HELPER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 752: ...752 CHAPTER 69 RMON CONFIGURATION ...
Page 772: ...772 CHAPTER 70 NTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 796: ...796 CHAPTER 72 FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ...
Page 802: ...802 CHAPTER 73 BIMS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 814: ...814 CHAPTER 74 FTP AND TFTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 830: ...830 CHAPTER 75 INFORMATION CENTER ...
Page 836: ...836 CHAPTER 76 DNS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 852: ...852 CHAPTER 77 BOOTROM AND HOST SOFTWARE LOADING ...
Page 858: ...858 CHAPTER 78 BASIC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DEBUGGING ...