- Index
- Preface
- Product Overview
- Command-Line Interfaces
- Smart Port Macros
- Virtual Switching Systems (VSS)
- Enhanced Fast Software Upgrade (eFSU)
- Fast Software Upgrades
- Stateful Switchover (SSO)
- Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF)
- RPR Supervisor Engine Redundancy
- Layer 2 LAN Port Configuration
- Flex Links
- EtherChannels
- IEEE 802.1ak MVRP and MRP
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
- VLANs
- Private VLANs (PVLANs)
- Private Hosts
- IEEE 802.1Q Tunneling
- Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling
- Spanning Tree Protocols (STP, MST)
- Optional STP Features
- IP Unicast Layer 3 Switching
- Policy Based Routing (PBR)
- Layer 3 Interface Configuration
- Unidirectional Ethernet (UDE) and unidirectional link routing (UDLR)
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- MPLS VPN Support
- Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
- IPv4 Multicast Layer 3 Features
- IPv4 Multicast IGMP Snooping
- IPv4 PIM Snooping
- IPv4 Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
- IPv4 IGMP Filtering
- IPv4 Router Guard
- IPv4 Multicast VPN Support
- IPv6 Multicast Layer 3 Features
- IPv6 MLD Snooping
- Netflow
- NetFlow Data Export (NDE)
- Call Home
- System Event Archive (SEA)
- Backplane Platform Monitoring
- Local SPAN, RSPAN, and ERSPAN
- SNMP IfIndex Persistence
- Top-N Reports
- Layer 2 Traceroute Utility
- Mini Protocol Analyzer
- PFC QoS
- AutoQoS
- MPLS QoS
- PFC QoS Statistics Data Export
- Cisco IOS ACL Support
- Cisco TrustSec (CTS)
- AutoSecure
- MAC Address-Based Traffic Blocking
- Port ACLs (PACLs)
- VLAN ACLs (VACLs)
- Policy-Based Forwarding (PBF)
- Denial of Service (DoS) Protection
- Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Snooping
- IP Source Guard
- Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)
- Traffic Storm Control
- Unknown Unicast and Multicast Flood Control
- IEEE 802.1X Port-Based Authentication
- Configuring Web-Based Authentication
- Port Security
- Lawful Intercept
- Online Diagnostic Tests
Switch Fabric Functionality
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Prerequisites for Switch Fabric Functionality
•Restrictions for Switch Fabric Functionality
•Information About the Switch Fabric Functionality
•Default Settings for Switch Fabric Functionality
•How to Configure the Switch Fabric Functionality
•Monitoring the Switch Fabric Functionality
Note•For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see these publications:
•Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY supports only Ethernet interfaces. Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY does not support any WAN features or commands.
Tip For additional information about Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches (including configuration examples and troubleshooting information), see the documents listed on this page:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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Prerequisites for Switch Fabric Functionality
None.
Restrictions for Switch Fabric Functionality
None.
Information About the Switch Fabric Functionality
•Switch Fabric Functionality Overview
•Forwarding Decisions for Layer 3-Switched Traffic
Switch Fabric Functionality Overview
The switch fabric functionality is built into the supervisor engine and creates a dedicated connection between fabric-enabled modules and provides uninterrupted transmission of frames between these modules. In addition to the direct connection between fabric-enabled modules provided by the switch fabric funtionality, fabric-enabled modules also have a direct connection to the forwarding bus.
Forwarding Decisions for Layer 3-Switched Traffic
Either a PFC or a Distributed Feature Card makes the forwarding decision for Layer 3-switched traffic as follows:
•A PFC makes all forwarding decisions for each packet that enters the switch through a module without a DFC.
•A DFC makes all forwarding decisions for each packet that enters the switch on a DFC-equipped module in these situations:
–If the egress port is on the same module as the ingress port, the DFC forwards the packet locally (the packet never leaves the module).
–If the egress port is on a different fabric-enabled module, the DFC sends the packet to the egress module, which sends it out the egress port.
–If the egress port is on a different nonfabric-enabled module, the DFC sends the packet to the supervisor engine. The supervisor engine fabric interface transfers the packet to the switching bus where it is received by the egress module and is sent out the egress port.
Default Settings for Switch Fabric Functionality
Traffic is forwarded to and from modules in one of the following modes:
•Compact mode—The switch uses this mode for all traffic when only fabric-enabled modules are installed. In this mode, a compact version of the DBus header is forwarded over the switch fabric channel, which provides the best possible performance.
•Truncated mode—The switch uses this mode for traffic between fabric-enabled modules when there are both fabric-enabled and nonfabric-enabled modules installed. In this mode, the switch sends a truncated version of the traffic (the first 64 bytes of the frame) over the switch fabric channel.
•Bus mode (also called flow-through mode)—The switch uses this mode for traffic between nonfabric-enabled modules and for traffic between a nonfabric-enabled module and a fabric-enabled module. In this mode, all traffic passes between the local bus and the supervisor engine bus.
Table 17-1 shows the switching modes used with fabric-enabled and nonfabric-enabled modules installed.
How to Configure the Switch Fabric Functionality
To configure the switching mode, perform this task:
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Router(config)# [no] fabric switching-mode allow {bus-mode | {truncated [{threshold [number]}]} |
Configures the switching mode. |
When configuring the switching mode, note the following information:
•To allow use of nonfabric-enabled modules or to allow fabric-enabled modules to use bus mode, enter the fabric switching-mode allow bus-mode command.
•To prevent use of nonfabric-enabled modules or to prevent fabric-enabled modules from using bus mode, enter the no fabric switching-mode allow bus-mode command.
When you enter the
no fabric switching-mode allow bus-mode command, power is removed from any nonfabric-enabled modules installed in the switch.
•To allow fabric-enabled modules to use truncated mode, enter the fabric switching-mode allow truncated command.
•To prevent fabric-enabled modules from using truncated mode, enter the no fabric switching-mode allow truncated command.
•To configure how many fabric-enabled modules must be installed before they use truncated mode instead of bus mode, enter the fabric switching-mode allow truncated threshold number command.
•To return to the default truncated-mode threshold, enter the no fabric switching-mode allow truncated threshold command.
Monitoring the Switch Fabric Functionality
•Displaying the Switch Fabric Redundancy Status
•Displaying Fabric Channel Switching Modes
•Displaying the Fabric Utilization
Displaying the Switch Fabric Redundancy Status
To display the switch fabric redundancy status, perform this task:
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Router# show fabric active |
Displays switch fabric redundancy status. |
Router# show fabric active
Active fabric card in slot 5
No backup fabric card in the system
Router#
Displaying Fabric Channel Switching Modes
To display the fabric channel switching mode of one or all modules, perform this task:
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Router# show fabric switching-mode [module {slot_number | all] |
Displays fabric channel switching mode of one or all modules. |
This example shows how to display the fabric channel switching mode of all modules:
Router# show fabric switching-mode module all
%Truncated mode is allowed
%System is allowed to operate in legacy mode
Module Slot Switching Mode Bus Mode
5 DCEF Compact
9 Crossbar Compact
Router#
Displaying the Fabric Status
To display the fabric status of one or all switching modules, perform this task:
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Router# show fabric status [slot_number | all] |
Displays fabric status. |
This example shows how to display the fabric status of all modules:
Router# show fabric status
slot channel speed module fabric
status status
1 0 8G OK OK
5 0 8G OK Up- Timeout
6 0 20G OK Up- BufError
8 0 8G OK OK
8 1 8G OK OK
9 0 8G Down- DDRsync OK
Router#
Displaying the Fabric Utilization
To display the fabric utilization of one or all modules, perform this task:
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Router# show fabric utilization [slot_number | all] |
Displays fabric utilization. |
This example shows how to display the fabric utilization of all modules:
Router# show fabric utilization all
Lo% Percentage of Low-priority traffic.
Hi% Percentage of High-priority traffic.
slot channel speed Ingress Lo% Egress Lo% Ingress Hi% Egress Hi%
5 0 20G 0 0 0 0
9 0 8G 0 0 0 0
Router#
Displaying Fabric Errors
To display fabric errors of one or all modules, perform this task:
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Router# show fabric errors [slot_number | all] |
Displays fabric errors. |
This example shows how to display fabric errors on all modules:
Router# show fabric errors
Module errors:
slot channel crc hbeat sync DDR sync
1 0 0 0 0 0
8 0 0 0 0 0
8 1 0 0 0 0
9 0 0 0 0 0
Fabric errors:
slot channel sync buffer timeout
1 0 0 0 0
8 0 0 0 0
8 1 0 0 0
9 0 0 0 0
Router#
Tip For additional information about Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches (including configuration examples and troubleshooting information), see the documents listed on this page:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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