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Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)
Force10 resilient ring protocol (FRRP) is supported on Dell Networking MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
FRRP is a proprietary protocol for that offers fast convergence in a Layer 2 network without having to run
the spanning tree protocol (STP). The resilient ring protocol is an efficient protocol that transmits a high-
speed token across a ring to verify the link status. All the intelligence is contained in the master node with
practically no intelligence required of the transit mode.
Important Points to Remember
• FRRP is media- and speed-independent.
• FRRP is a Dell Networking proprietary protocol that does not interoperate with any other vendor.
• Spanning Tree must be disabled on both primary and secondary interfaces before Resilient Ring
protocol is enabled.
• A virtual local area network (VLAN) configured as the control VLAN for a ring cannot be configured as
a control or member VLAN for any other ring.
• Member VLANs across multiple rings are not supported in Master nodes.
• If multiple rings share one or more member VLANs, they cannot share any links between them.
• Each ring can have only one Master node; all others are Transit nodes.
clear frrp
Clear the FRRP statistics counters.
Syntax
clear frrp [
ring-id
]
Parameters
ring-id
(Optional) Enter the ring identification number. The range is
from 1 to 255.
Defaults
none
Command
Modes
EXEC
Command
History
Version 9.2(0.0)
Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage
Information
Executing this command without the optional
ring-id
command clears the
statistics counters on all the available rings. The system requires a command line
confirmation before the command executes. This command clears the following
counters:
Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)
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