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Configuring Trunks and Adding Interface Shelves

Configuring Trunks

Setting Up a Trunk

Reconfiguring a Trunk

Removing a Trunk

Displaying or Printing Trunk Configurations

Adding an Interface Shelf


Configuring Trunks and Adding Interface Shelves


This chapter describes how to configure trunks and add interface shelves.

After you have configured the nodes, you must activate the trunks. Trunks are intranode communication links in a network. A trunk can connect any combination of IGX or BPX nodes.

Contents of this chapter include:

Configuring Trunks

Adding an Interface Shelf

Before proceeding to this chapter, you should first complete the procedures in:

Part 2, Installation

Chapter 17, "Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration"

For details on virtual trunking, see:

Chapter 23, "Configuring BXM Virtual Switch Interface"

Chapter 24, "Configuring BXM Virtual Trunks"

Configuring Trunks

Trunk characteristics are:

Physical line type:

T1 (including fractional) and IMA
E1 (including fractional) and IMA
Subrate, E3, T3, or
OC-3 (STM1) and OC-12 with BXM

Communication technology:

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or FastPackets.


The communication technology for each node type, card combination, and line type are listed in Table 18-1.

Table 18-1 Supported Card Types 

Node Type
Front Card
Back Card
Line Types
Technology

IGX

NTM

BC-T1

T1, Fractional T1

FastPacket

IGX

NTM

BC-E1

E1, Fractional E1

FastPacket

IGX

NTM

BC-SR

Subrate

FastPacket

IGX

NTM

BC-Y1

Y1, Fractional Y1

FastPacket

IGX

UXM

BC-UAI-2-155-SMF,
BC-UAI-4-155-SMF
BC-UAI-2SMFXLR,
BC-UAI-4SMFXLR
BC-UAI-4-155-MMF
BC-UAI-4-STM1E,
BC-UAI-4T1-DB15
BC-UAI-4E1-DB15
BC-UAI-4-E1-BNC
BC-UAI-8T1-DB15, BC-UAI-8E1-DB15,
BC-UAI-8E1-BNC
BC-UAI-3-T3
BC-UAI-6-T3
BC-UAI-3-E3
BC-UAI-6-E3

OC-3
OC-3
OC-3
OC-3
OC-3
STM1 Electrical
T1
E1
E1
T1
E1
E1
T3
T3
E3
E3

ATM

BPX

BNI

LM-3T3, LM-3E3

T3, E3

ATM

BPX

BNI-155,
BNI-155E

2OC3-SMF or
2OC3-MMF

OC-3 (STS)

ATM

BPX

BXM-155-8

MMF-155-8
SMF-155-8
SMFLR-155-8

OC-3 (STS)

ATM

BPX

BXM-155-4

MMF-155-4
SMF-155-4
SMFLR-155-4

OC-3 (STS)

ATM

BPX

BXM-622-2

SMF-622-2
SMFLR-622-2
SMFXLR-622-2

OC-12 (STM4)

ATM


Setting Up a Trunk

Before executing the commands in this section, you must have finished setting up the nodes (see Chapter 17, "Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration.") Also, the front and back cards that support the proposed line type and communication technology must reside in the slot intended for the trunk.

You can configure port, routing trunk, and feeder trunk interfaces simultaneously on a slot containing a BXM card. For example, you can up port 1 on a BXM slot as a trunk interface while also upping port 2 as a line interface. For BXM cards, you do not need to upgrade the firmware.

You cannot use a virtual trunk as an interface shelf (feeder) trunk; similarly, you cannot configure an interface shelf trunk to act as a virtual trunk. Similarly, you cannot terminate interface shelf (feeder) connections on a virtual trunk.

The interface types that are supported on the same card are listed in Table 18-2.

Table 18-2 Interface Types Supported on the Same Card

Interface Type
BXM
UXM

Physical trunks

supported

supported

Virtual trunk

supported

supported

Interface shelf (feeder) trunks

supported

not supported

Ports (UNI/NNI)

supported

supported


To set up a trunk, use the following procedure.


Step 1 Use the uptrk command to activate the trunk.

Use the uptrk command to activate the trunk so that it can start to generate framing. It also determines whether the trunk is a physical-only trunk or a virtual trunk. The third digit you specify in the uptrk command (represented by slot.port.vtrk) indicates that the trunk is virtual. For details on virtual trunking, see Chapter 24, "Configuring BXM Virtual Trunks."

Use the uptrk command at each end of the trunk. When the trunk is upped at only one end, the node detects the trunk as being in an alarm state. For more information, refer to the dsptrks command of the Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference, Reference 9.3.30. If you up the trunk at both ends, the alarm is cleared.

Step 2 Use the cnftrk command to override the trunk default values. You must use the cnftrk command for virtual trunks, but it is an optional command for physical trunks. For virtual trunks, you must change the VPI to a nonzero value before executing the addtrk command.

If you use the cnftrk command, you must make the same changes at both ends of the trunk. To display existing trunk parameters, use the dsptrkcnf command. The configurable parameters are listed for each card type in Table 18-1. (The possible parameters are PKT for FastPackets, ATM cells, BNI if the trunk is a BNI card, or All.) Not all of these parameters apply to the BPX node.

After you configure the trunk and add the trunk (addtrk), you can specify certain parameters again. For example, a period of trunk use can give you enough information to indicate that you should change parameters to optimize how the trunk is used.

Step 3 Use the addtrk command to add the trunk. Adding the trunk makes the trunk a usable resource, so you can add connections (addcon) to carry traffic. You need to add only one end of the trunk.


Reconfiguring a Trunk

This section describes how to change trunk parameters after you have added the trunk.

After you have added a trunk, you can reconfigure some parameters without first deleting the trunk by using the deltrk command. This means that you can reconfigure the following list of trunk parameters when the trunk is in use. The cnftrk display highlights all configurable parameters, and dims parameters that are not configurable.

The following are the parameters that you can change without first deleting the trunk:

Restrict Control Card traffic ("PCC restrict")

Pass sync

Loop clock

Statistical reserve

Idle Code (reconfigurable for trunk and line)

Cable type/length

Virtual trunk type

Link type

HCS Masking

Payload Scrambling

Frame Scrambling

Traffic classes

Recv Impedance

Cost of Trunk

Deroute Delay Time

Incremental CDV

Trunk Receive Rate—On IGX platforms, configurable after a trunk has been added.

Trunk Transmit Rate—On BPX platforms, configurable after a trunk has been added.

F4 AIS Detection—This parameter modifies the value on one end of the trunk but does not automatically modify the value on the other end of the trunk.

For the cnftrk parameter definitions, refer to the Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference, Release 9.3.30.

To change the applicable parameters without deleting the trunk, use the following procedure.


Step 1 Execute the cnftrk command at both ends of the trunk to reconfigure parameters.

Step 2 Execute the addtrk command at only one end of the trunk to add the trunk.

Switch software triggers a reroute of connections only if a change to a parameter results in too few resources to support the current load of connections.

If you attempt to change one of the trunk parameters, the other endpoint is updated by switch software. It is not necessary to change both endpoints' parameters.


The following are the parameters that cannot be changed after adding a trunk by using the addtrk command:

Virtual trunk type

Link type

HCS Masking

Payload Scrambling

Frame Scrambling

Recv Impedance

To display the current trunk parameters, use the dsptrkcnf command. If you can make all the needed parameter changes without deleting the trunk, execute the cnftrk command. Use the cnftrk command at both ends of the trunk.

To change the applicable parameters that cannot be modified after adding a trunk, use the following procedure.


Step 1 Delete the trunk by executing the deltrk command at one end of the trunk.

Step 2 Execute the cnftrk command at both ends of the trunk to reconfigure parameters.

Step 3 Execute the addtrk command at only one end of the trunk to add the trunk.

Switch software triggers a reroute of connections only if a change to a parameter results in too few resources to support the current load of connections.

If you attempt to change one of the trunk parameters, the other endpoint is updated by switch software. It is not necessary to change both endpoints' parameters.



Note MPLS partitions are not affected by trunk and line reconfiguration, because label switching partitions cannot be increased beyond the available number of resources.


For a trunk between a node running the current release and a node running an earlier release (such as 9.2 or 8.5), you are prompted that you can change a parameter only if both ends allow such a change.

Removing a Trunk

To remove a trunk, use the following procedure.


Step 1 Use the deltrk command to delete the trunk. If both nodes are reachable, perform this command at one end of the trunk only. Otherwise, you must perform this command at both ends. If the deltrk command results in splitting up the network, connections whose endpoints are no longer in the same network are automatically deleted.

Step 2 Use the dntrk command to down the trunk. Execute the dntrk command at both ends of the trunk.


Displaying or Printing Trunk Configurations

You can display the network trunk configuration on the screen or print it on the printer in a one-step process by using any one of the following commands listed in Table 18-3.

Table 18-3 Trunk Configuration Commands 

Name
Description

dsptrks

Displays the current trunk configuration and alarm status at a node.

prttrks

Prints the current trunk configuration and alarm status at a node.

dspnw

Displays all trunks for each node.

prtnw

Prints all trunks for each node.


Adding an Interface Shelf

An interface shelf is a nonrouting device that drives ATM cells to and from a BPX or IGX routing hub in a tiered network. (An interface shelf is also sometimes referred to as a feeder shelf.) An interface shelf can be:

an IGX node configured as an interface shelf.

an MGX 8220, MGX 8230, and MGX 8250 interface shelf.

a Service Expansions Shelf (SES) with PNNI.

For instructions on installing a Service Expansion Shelf in a BPX 8620 rack and initially powering up, refer to the Cisco Service Expansion Shelf (SES) Hardware Installation Guide. To configure an SES PNNI for a BPX 8620, refer to the Cisco SES PNNI Controller Software Configuration Guide.

Because tiered network capability is a purchased option, personnel in the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) must first configure a node to serve as an interface shelf. Then you must use the cnftrk command to configure an interface shelf to use STI cell headers and BPX Addressing Mode (BAM).

Before you can add an MGX 8220 shelf to a tiered network, the shelf must be an available resource in the network. (For instructions on how to bring up an MGX 8220 shelf, see the MGX 8220 documentation.)

To add an interface shelf, use addshelf. For an illustration of the command sequence for to set up an interface shelf, see Figure 17-5.


Note The addshelf and addtrk commands are mutually exclusive.


To delete a feeder shelf, use the delshelf command.

To view conditions on a feeder trunk, use the dspnode command.

The designations for various devices that can be used as interface shelves are listed in Table 18-4. To display these designations, use the display commands dspnw and dspnode. The dspnode command identifies the hub and feeder nodes and shows the alarm status.

Table 18-4 Interface Shelf Designations

Device Serving as Shelf
Designation

MGX 8220

AXIS

MGX 8230 and MGX 8250

AAL5

SES (Service Expansion Shelf)

AAL5

IGX

IGX/AF



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