Cisco ONS 15454 and Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, Releases 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.2.1

Configuring IEEE 802.17b Resilient Packet Ring on the ML-MR-10 Card

This chapter describes the IEEE 802.17b-based resilient packet ring (RPR-IEEE) and how to configure it on the ML-MR-10 card.

This chapter contains the following major sections:

•Understanding RPR-IEEE

•Configuring RPR-IEEE Characteristics

•Configuring RPR-IEEE Protection

•Configuring QoS on RPR-IEEE

•Verifying and Monitoring RPR-IEEE

•Monitoring RPR-IEEE in CTC

Understanding RPR-IEEE

RPR, as described in IEEE 802.17, is a metropolitan area network (MAN) technology supporting data transfer among stations interconnected in a dual-ring configuration. The IEEE 802.17b spatially aware sublayer amendment is not yet ratified but is expected to add support for bridging to IEEE 802.17. Since the amendment is not yet ratified, no equipment is currently IEEE 802.17b compliant. The ML-MR-10 card's RPR-IEEE is based on the expected IEEE 802.17b based standard.

The ML-MR-10 card supports RPR-IEEE. RPR-IEEE is well suited for transporting Ethernet over a SONET/SDH ring topology and enables multiple ML-MR-10 cards to become one functional network segment. When used in this role, RPR-IEEE overcomes the limitations of earlier schemes, such as IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), IEEE 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and SONET/SDH.

Note Throughout this book, Cisco proprietary RPR is referred to as Cisco proprietary RPR, and IEEE 802.17b-based RPR is referred to as RPR-IEEE. This chapter covers RPR-IEEE. Chapter 26, "Configuring Cisco Proprietary Resilient Packet Ring" covers Cisco proprietary RPR.

RPR-IEEE Features on the ML-MR-10 Card

See Chapter 3, "ML-Series Card Overview" for a list of the ML-MR-10 card supported features based on the expected IEEE 802.17b.

Note On the ML-MR RPR-IEEE interface, only GFP-F Framing is supported and GFP-FCS will not be transmitted.

Advantages of RPR-IEEE

The ML-MR-10 card supports RPR-IEEE in addition to Cisco proprietary RPR. Some of the advantages of RPR-IEEE include:

•Steering. Ring protection is accomplished through steering instead of wrapping. Steering is a more efficient way of routing around a failure.

•Dual-transit queues. Dual-transit queues offer more control in handling transit traffic.

•Best-effort traffic classifications. "Best Effort" and "EIR" traffic classifications improve distribution of traffic across a best-effort service class.

•Interoperability. Conformance to the expected IEEE 802.17b standard increases interoperability with third-party vendors.

•Built-in service provider support. RPR-IEEE provides built-in operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) support for service provider environments.

•Fairness. Fairness allows all the stations on the ring to fairly share the RPR-IEEE's best-effort bandwidth.

Role of SONET/SDH Circuits

The ML-MR-10 card in an RPR-IEEE must connect directly or indirectly through point-to-point synchronous transport signal/synchronous transport module (STS/STM) circuits. The point-to-point STS/STM circuits are configured on the ONS node through Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) or Transaction Language One (TL1) and are transported over the ONS node's SONET/SDH topology on either protected or unprotected circuits.

On circuits unprotected by the SONET/SDH mechanism, RPR-IEEE provides resiliency without using the capacity of the redundant protection path that a SONET/SDH protected circuit would require. This frees this capacity for additional traffic. RPR-IEEE also utilizes the bandwidth of the entire ring and does not block segments like STP or RSTP.

Note A minimum of two members are required to create SW-LCAS based circuit.

An RPR-IEEE is made up of dual counter-rotating rings (ringlets), one for clockwise or west data traffic and one for counter-clockwise or east data traffic. The ringlets are identified as Ringlet 0 and Ringlet 1 in Figure 30-1. The west ringlet traffic is transmitted out the west interface and received by the east interface. The east ringlet traffic is transmitted out the east interface and received by the west interface. Only east-to-west or west-to-east transmission schemes are allowed.

Figure 30-1 Dual-Ring Structure

RPR-IEEE Framing Process

The RPR frames are encapsulated in a GFP frame and transmitted over SONET on the ML-MR-10 card. There are two types of RPR frames, basic and extended. With POS, the RPR-IEEE frame is encapsulated into the SONET/SDH payload for transport over the SONET/SDH topology. For more information about POS, see Chapter 9, "POS on ONS Ethernet Cards.".

Figure 30-2 illustrates the IEEE 802.17 basic data frame for IP only networks and the expected IEEE 802.17b extended data frame used with bridging. The extended data frame adds an extended destination address and extended source address to the basic data frame.

Figure 30-2 RPR-IEEE Data Frames

Table 30-2 defines the most important fields in the RPR-IEEE data frame.

Figure 30-3 illustrates the RPR-IEEE topology and protection control frame. Topology and protection (TP) frames are usually sent to the broadcast address.

Figure 30-3 Topology and Protection Control Frame Formats

Figure 30-4 illustrates the RPR-IEEE fairness frame. Fairness frames are sent either to all stations or only the nearest neighbor depending on whether it is a single-choke fairness frame (SCFF) or multi-choke fairness frame (MCFF). Fairness frames are included in the total bandwidth of the QoS A0 service class. This eliminates the need for a destination address (DA). The MCFF type also includes an additional frequency division duplexing (FDD) frame to help smooth the fairness variation. The field SA Compact is the address of the station providing the fair rate.

Note The ML-MR-10 card do not generate multi-choke fairness frames but support multi-choke fairness frames generated from other stations on the RPR-IEEE.

Figure 30-4 Fairness Frame Format

For comparison of RPR-IEEE frames and Cisco proprietary RPR frames, see the "Cisco Proprietary RPR Framing Process" section on page 26-5 for Cisco proprietary RPR framing information.

CTM and RPR-IEEE

Cisco Transport Manager (CTM) is an element management system (EMS) designed to integrate into an overall network management system (NMS) and interface with other higher level management tools. CTM supports RPR-IEEE provisioning on ML-MR-10 cards. For more information, refer to the Cisco Transport Manager User Guide at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/opticsw/ps2204/products_user_guide_list.html

Configuring RPR-IEEE Characteristics

Configuration tasks for RPR-IEEE characteristics are presented in the following sections:

•General characteristics:

–Configuring the Attribute Discovery Timer

–Configuring the Reporting of SONET Alarms

–Configuring BER Threshold Values

•Protection characteristics:

–Configuring the Hold-off Timer

–Configuring Jumbo Frames

–Configuring Forced or Manual Switching

–Configuring Protection Timers

–Configuring the Wait-to-Restore Timer

–Configuring a Span Shutdown

–Configuring Keepalive Events

–Configuring Triggers for CRC Errors

•QoS characteristics:

–Configuring Traffic Rates for Transmission

–Configuring Fairness Weights

–Verifying and Monitoring RPR-IEEE

Configuring the Attribute Discovery Timer

Because station attributes are communicated separately from topology and protection packets, there is a separate timer to control the frequency at which these packets are sent. Attribute propagation is therefore determined by the attribute discovery (ATD) timer. The default rate is one packet per second for each ringlet.

Note Configure both ringlets with the same value.

To enable and configure the ATD, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring the Reporting of SONET Alarms

The ML-MR-10 card reports SONET/SDH alarms through the CTC alarm panel in the same manner as other ONS cards. The ML-MR-10 card can also report SONET/SDH alarms through the Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI). Configuring CTC reporting does not affect Cisco IOS CLI reporting or vice versa. See Chapter 33, "Configuring Ethernet Virtual Circuits and QoS on the ML-MR-10 Card," for more details about configuring the reporting of SONET Alarms.

Configuring BER Threshold Values

To configure bit error rate (BER) threshold values for various alarms on an RPR-IEEE interface, refer to the "DLP-A533 Create Ethernet RMON Alarm Thresholds" task in the Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide or to the "DLP-D441 Create Ethernet RMON Alarm Thresholds" task in the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Procedure Guide.

Configuring RPR-IEEE Protection

RPR-IEEE has three protection states:

•Closed—This is the normal steady state. Data traffic is traveling around the RPR-IEEE on both Ringlet 0 and Ringlet 1. Figure 30-1 illustrates this state.

•Open—This is the state after a protection event. A protection event, such as a fiber cut or node failure, triggers a change in the ring topology. Each node responds to the new topology by steering. Steering forwards data traffic so that it avoids the failure. Based on the type of failure, it will avoid either a specific span or a node and its two adjoining spans. Figure 30-5 illustrates this state.

•Passthrough—This is the initial state of the RPR-IEEE node. It does not participate in the topology and blindly forwards frames.

Figure 30-5 Each RPR-IEEE Node Responding to a Protection Event by Steering

You can modify many of the RPR-IEEE protection characteristics with the procedures in the following sections.

Configuring the Hold-off Timer

You can delay the protection response to a failure event, such as a signal failure or signal degradation, with the hold-off timer. Setting a longer timer can help avoid link errors that last long enough for detection, but do not last long enough to warrant the costs of protecting the span. This delay can result in higher traffic loss, however. The default value for this timer is 0 milliseconds.

To enable and configure the hold-off timer, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1	Router(config)# interface rpr-ieee 0	Activates interface configuration mode to configure the RPR-IEEE interface.
Step 2	Router(config-if)# rpr-ieee protection sonet holdoff-timer time [east | west]	Specifies the delay before a protection response is sent. Values range from 0 to 20, in units of 10 milliseconds. The default is 0. (Optional) You can also specify the east or west ringlet. Caution The number of milliseconds for the keepalive timer must be higher than the number of milliseconds for the holdoff timer. Caution When using SW-LCAS on the RPR-IEEE, the addition or deletion of a SW-LCAS member circuit causes a traffic hit with a maximum of 50 ms. The holdoff timer requires a value greater than 5 (50 ms) or the SW-LCAS addition or deletion triggers a protection response.
Step 3	Router(config)# no shut	Enables the RPR-IEEE interface and changes the mode from the default passthrough.
Step 4	Router(config)# end	Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 5	Router# copy running-config startup-config	(Optional) Saves configuration changes to the TCC2/TCC2P flash database.

Configuring Jumbo Frames

You can configure the interface to support jumbo frames. The jumbo setting specifies that the station support a maximum transfer unit (MTU) of up to 9100 bytes.

Caution For jumbo frame support, you must configure all the stations on the ring to support jumbo frames.

To enable and configure Jumbo frames, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring Forced or Manual Switching

You can request certain protection states to take effect manually on either span of the interface to avoid link usage or in anticipation of failures.

To enable and configure forced or manual switching, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring Protection Timers

Protection messages are sent based on the intervals of two timers. These timers apply under different circumstances:

•Fast timer—Immediately after a protection event occurs, a fast protection timer is used. This timer is configured between 1 and 20 milliseconds to cause a rapid acknowledgement of the protected state on the ring. A finite number of packets are sent at this frequency after the event. The default for this timer is 10 milliseconds.

•Slow timer—Between protection events, the slow timer communicates the current protection state of the ring. This timer is configured from 1 to 10 in units of 100 milliseconds. The default is 10, which represents 100 milliseconds.

The protection timers are configured the same on both spans of an interface.

To enable and configure the protection timers, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring the Wait-to-Restore Timer

When the failure is fixed, a wait-to-restore timer defines how long before the span reverts to its original state. This timer protects against false negatives in the detection of the failure status, which can avoid protection-flapping through the use of larger values. Smaller values result in faster recovery times, however. This timer can be configured between 0 and 1440 seconds, or configured to not recover automatically. The default for the timer is 10 seconds.

To enable and configure the wait-to-restore timer, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring a Span Shutdown

The rpr-ieee shutdown command performs the same task as the rpr-ieee protection request forced-switch command.

To cause a forced switch on the span of the interface, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring Keepalive Events

A station receives fairness messages from a link to determine its status. When the number of milliseconds that pass without receiving a fairness message from the neighboring stations exceeds a specified timer, a keepalive event is triggered. The keepalive event generates a protection event.

The timer can have a different value on each span and must be greater than or equal to the hold-off timer. This feature is independent of the fairness algorithm itself, but is still a function performed by the fairness machine.

To enable and configure the keepalives, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1	Router(config)# interface rpr-ieee 0	Activates interface configuration mode to configure the RPR-IEEE interface.
Step 2	Router(config-if)# rpr-ieee keepalive-timer milliseconds [east | west]	Specifies the amount of time that can pass before a keepalive event is triggered after not receiving a fairness message from a neighboring station. Values range from 2 to 200 milliseconds. The default is 3 milliseconds. (Optional) You can also specify the east or west ringlet. Caution The number of milliseconds for the keepalive timer must be higher than the number of milliseconds for the holdoff timer.
Step 3	Router(config)# no shut	Enables the RPR-IEEE interface and changes the mode from the default passthrough.
Step 4	Router(config)# end	Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 5	Router# copy running-config startup-config	(Optional) Saves configuration changes to the TCC2/TCC2P flash database.

Configuring Triggers for CRC Errors

You can configure a span shutdown when the ML-MR-10 card receives cyclic redundancy check (CRC)errors at a rate that exceeds the configured threshold and configured soak time. See Chapter 32,

"Configuring Ethernet Vitrual Circuits and QoS on ML-MR-10 Card," for details about configuring

triggers for CRC errors.

Configuring QoS on RPR-IEEE

The ML-MR-10 card implements RPR-IEEE QoS. You can configure the different priorities of traffic with rate limiters and specific bandwidths. The configuration for each span might be identical (default) or the configuration might vary from the other span.

The highest-priority traffic, known as service class A0, can reserve a portion of total ringlet bandwidth using the reserved keyword. This reservation is propagated throughout the ringlet, and all stations recognize the bandwidth allocation cumulatively. Reserved A0 bandwidth can be used only by the station that reserves it. The default allocation is 0 Mbps.

Service class A1 is configured as high-priority traffic in excess of the A0 bandwidth reservation, and can be rate-limited using the high tx-traffic rate limiter. The default allocation is 10 Mbps.

The medium transmit traffic rate limiter allows a certain amount of traffic to be added to the ringlet that is not subject to fairness eligibility, but must compete for the unreserved bandwidth with other traffic of the same service class. This traffic is committed information rate (B-CIR) traffic. The default allocation is 10 Mbps.

Configuring Traffic Rates for Transmission

To enable and configure the traffic rates, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Configuring Fairness Weights

RPR-IEEE has a configurable fairness system, used to control congestion on each ringlet. This feature moderates bandwidth utilization of the ringlet to minimize and potentially eliminate starvation of any station. Each station has two instances of the fairness machine, to control traffic that is being transmitted and transited out of each span of the interface. Each fairness machine is devoted to a particular ringlet, and controls the traffic that is destined to that ringlet.

Each ringlet in an unwrapped ring is independent, and the fairness configuration can differ for each direction. The default is to configure both directions, but you can optionally specify east or west in the configuration.

The local station weight impacts how congested the station appears relative to other stations in the ringlet. It also affects how much more bandwidth a station can use. A higher weight gives the local station a greater share of the ringlet bandwidth. A lower weight decreases the bandwidth share of the local station. The default value is 0 configured as an exponent of 2, which yields an effective weight of 1.

To enable and configure the fairness weight, perform the following procedure, beginning in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# no shut

Router(config)# end

Router# copy running-config startup-config

Verifying and Monitoring RPR-IEEE

After RPR-IEEE is configured, you can use the following commands to verify setup and monitor its status:

•The show interface rpr-ieee interface-number command (Example 30-1) displays the following for an interface:

–Primary or secondary status (if RI is activated)

–Active or standby mode (if RI is activated)

–Up or down (pass-through mode) status

–Monitoring status and by extension, general protection status

•The show interface rpr-ieee fairness detail command (Example 30-2) displays the following for an interface:

–Total bandwidth

–Traffic class configured transmission rates

–Fairness weight settings for the interface

–Instances of congestion

•The show rpr-ieee protection command (Example 30-3) displays the following for an interface:

–Station and neighbor interface MAC addresses

–Protection timer settings

–Ring protection status

–Span failures

•The show rpr-ieee topology detail command (Example 30-4) displays the following for the ring:

–Station names and neighbor MAC addresses of all stations on the ring

–Traffic class configured transmission rates for all stations on the ring

–Fairness weight settings for all stations on the ring

–Jumbo frame status (on or off) for all stations on the ring

–ATD information for all stations on the ring

–Protection mode for all nodes on the ring

–Secondary MAC addresses for all stations on the ring

Example 30-1 show interface rpr-ieee 0 Output

router# show interface rpr-ieee 0

	RPR-IEEE0 is up, line protocol is up 

	Hardware is RPR-IEEE Channelized SONET, address is 000e.8312.bcf0 (bia 																			000e.8312.bcf0)

	MTU 1500 bytes, BW 145152 Kbit, DLY 100 usec, 

	reliability 255/255, txload 105/255, rxload 99/255

Encapsulation: RPR-IEEE,

	West Span: loopback not set

	East Span: loopback not set

	MAC passthrough not set 

	RI: primary,active peer mac 000e.8312.b870

	ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

	Last input 00:00:00, output never, output hang never

	Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

	Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

	Queueing strategy: fifo

	Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)

West Span:			5 minutes output rate 57872638 bits/sec, 25307 packets/sec

			5 minutes input rate 57786924 bits/sec, 25268 packets/sec

East Span:			5 minutes output rate 2765315 bits/sec, 1197 packets/sec

			5 minutes input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

	26310890 packets input, 3230040117 bytes

	Received 0 broadcasts (0 IP multicast)

	0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

	3 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored

	0 watchdog, 0 multicast

	0 input packets with dribble condition detected

	32138811 packets output, 601868274 bytes, 0 underruns

	0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets

	0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

	0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier

	0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

Example 30-2 show rpr-ieee fairness detail Output

router# show rpr-ieee fairness detail

IEEE 802.17 Fairness on RPR-IEEE0:

   Bandwidth: 96768 kilobits per second

   Station using aggressive rate adjustment.

Westbound Tx (Ringlet 1)

   Weighted Fairness:

      Local Weight: 0  (1)

   Single-Choke Fairness Status:

      Local Congestion:

         Congested? No

            Head? No

         Local Fair Rate:

            Approximate Bandwidth: 64892 Kbps

            25957 normalized bytes per aging interval

51914 bytes per ageCoef aging interval

      Downstream Congestion:

		Congested? No

            Tail? No

         Received Source Address: 0000.0000.0000

Received Fair Rate:

            Approximate Bandwidth: FULL RATE

65535 normalized bytes per aging interval

Reserved Rate:

0 Kbps

      0 bytes per aging interval

   Unreserved Rate:

      96768 Kbps

      4838 bytes per aging interval

Allowed Rate:

      Approximate Bandwidth: 96000 Kbps

      4800 bytes per aging interval

   Allowed Rate Congested:

      Approximate Bandwidth: 96000 Kbps

      4800 bytes per aging interval

      TTL to Congestion: 255

      Total Hops Tx: 4

   Advertised Fair Rate:

      Approximate Bandwidth: FULL RATE

65535 normalized bytes per aging interval

      8191 bytes per aging interval

Eastbound Tx (Ringlet 0)

   Weighted Fairness:

      Local Weight: 0  (1)

   Single-Choke Fairness Status:

      Local Congestion:

         Congested? No

            Head? No

         Local Fair Rate:

            Approximate Bandwidth: 0 Kbps

            0 normalized bytes per aging interval

            0 bytes per ageCoef aging interval

      Downstream Congestion:

         Congested? No

            Tail? No

         Received Source Address: 0000.0000.0000

         Received Fair Rate:

            Approximate Bandwidth: FULL RATE

            65535 normalized bytes per aging interval

   Reserved Rate:

0 Kbps

      0 bytes per aging interval

   Unreserved Rate:

      96768 Kbps

      4838 bytes per aging interval

   Allowed Rate:

      Approximate Bandwidth: 96000 Kbps

      4800 bytes per aging interval

   Allowed Rate Congested:

      Approximate Bandwidth: 96000 Kbps

      4800 bytes per aging interval

      TTL to Congestion: 255

      Total Hops Tx: 4

   Advertised Fair Rate:

      Approximate Bandwidth: FULL RATE

      65535 normalized bytes per aging interval

      8191 bytes per aging interval

Example 30-3 show rpr-ieee protection Output

router# show rpr-ieee protection

Protection Information for Interface RPR-IEEE0

 MAC Addresses

   West Span (Ringlet 0 RX) neighbor 000b.fcff.9d34

   East Span (Ringlet 1 RX) neighbor 0013.1991.1fc0

   Station MAC address 0005.9a3c.59c0

 TP frame sending timers:

fast timer: 10 msec

     slow timer: 1x100 msec (100 msec)

Protection holdoff timers:

     L1 Holdoff                         Keepalive Detection

     West Span  0x10 msec (  0 msec)    West Span   5 msec

     East Span  0x10 msec (  0 msec)    East Span   5 msec

 Configured protection mode: STEERING

 Protection Status

   Ring is IDLE

   Protection WTR period is 10 sec. (timer is inactive)

     Self Detected Requests               Remote Requests

     West Span IDLE                       West Span IDLE 

     East Span IDLE                       East Span IDLE 

     Distant Requests 

     East Span IDLE                       West Span IDLE

   West Span Failures: none

   East Span Failures: none

Example 30-4 show rpr-ieee topology detail Output

The IP address field in the output of show rpr-ieee topology detail is populated only by the IP address of the main interface, rpr-ieee 0. It is not populated by the IP address of any of the subinterfaces.

router# show rpr-ieee topology detail

802.17 Topology Display

  RX ringlet0->West span	RX ringlet1->East span

Number of nodes on

      ringlet0: 5	ringlet1: 5

=======================================================================

Local Station Topology Info

=======================================================================

Topology entry: 

  Station MAC address: 0005.9a3c.59c0

   West Span (Outer ringlet RX) neighbor 000b.fcff.9d34

   East Span (Inner ringlet RX) neighbor 0013.1991.1fc0

  Ring Topology: CLOSED (STABLE)

  Containment Active: NO

  A0 class reserved rate: 

      ringlet0: 0 (mbps)	ringlet1: 0 (mbps)

  Ringlet reserved rate: 

      ringlet0: 0 (mbps)	ringlet1: 0 (mbps)

  Ringlet unreserved rate: 

      ringlet0: 96 (mbps)	ringlet1: 96 (mbps)

  Ringlet effective unreserved rate:

      ringlet0: 95.9 (mbps)	ringlet1: 95.9 (mbps)

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Configured protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't support JUMBOS)

  Is revertive: YES

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  ATD timer: 1 sec

  Station Name: ML100T-481

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

=======================================================================

Topology Map for Outer ringlet 

=======================================================================

=======================================================================

Topology entry at Index 1 on ringlet 0: 

  Station MAC address: 000b.fcff.9d34

  Valid on ringlet0: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100X-491

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

=======================================================================

Topology entry at Index 2 on ringlet 0: 

  Station MAC address: 0011.2130.b568

  Valid on ringlet0: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML1000-491

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

=======================================================================

Topology entry at Index 3 on ringlet 0: 

  Station MAC address: 0005.9a39.7630

  Valid on ringlet0: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML1000-492

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

=======================================================================

Topology entry at Index 4 on ringlet 0: 

  Station MAC address: 0013.1991.1fc0

  Valid on ringlet0: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100T-482

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

=======================================================================

Topology entry at Index 5 on ringlet 0: 

  Station MAC address: 0005.9a3c.59c0

	Valid on ringlet0: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100T-481

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

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Topology Map for Inner ringlet 

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Topology entry at Index 1 on ringlet 1: 

  Station MAC address: 0013.1991.1fc0

  Valid on ringlet1: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100T-482

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

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Topology entry at Index 2 on ringlet 1: 

  Station MAC address: 0005.9a39.7630

  Valid on ringlet1: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML1000-492

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

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Topology entry at Index 3 on ringlet 1: 

  Station MAC address: 0011.2130.b568

  Valid on ringlet1: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML1000-491

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

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Topology entry at Index 4 on ringlet 1: 

  Station MAC address: 000b.fcff.9d34

  Valid on ringlet1: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100X-491

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

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Topology entry at Index 5 on ringlet 1: 

  Station MAC address: 0005.9a3c.59c0

  Valid on ringlet1: YES

  Entry reachable: YES

  Advertised Protection requests: 

      ringlet0: IDLE	ringlet1: IDLE

  Active Edges:

      ringlet0: NO 	ringlet1: NO 

  Preferred protection mode: STEERING

  Jumbo preference: NOT SET (ring doesn't supports JUMBOS)

  Measured LRTT: 0

  Sequence Number: 3

ATD INFO:

  Station Name: ML100T-481

  A0 reserved Bandwidth: 

      ringlet0: 0 mbps	ringlet1: 0 mbps

  SAS enabled: YES

  Weight: 

      ringlet0: 1	ringlet1: 1

  Secondary Mac Addresses: 

        MAC 1: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

        MAC 2: 0000.0000.0000 (UNUSED)

Monitoring RPR-IEEE in CTC

You can display the IEEE-RPR topology from a network map in CTC. If there are circuits that make a logical ring, CTC can trace the ring and display the complete topology. The network map has a granularity going down to the ML-MR-10 card, because multiple ML cards within a single node can be used to make a RPR topology. The display shows all the ML-MR-10 cards as individual entities in the topology.

To display an RPR, proceed as follows:

Step 1 Launch CTC and select the network view. A screen similar to Figure 30-6 is displayed.

Step 2 Click the Circuits tab in the lower pane and select an RPR circuit that you want to display.

Step 3 Click Tools > Circuits > Show RPR Circuit Ring.

Figure 30-6 CTC Network Map View

CTC displays the RPR Topology window, shown in Figure 30-7, showing the complete topology of the ring. Click the RPR State tab to see the status of the displayed ring.

Figure 30-7

CTC RPR Topology Window

The links on the RPR topology display are shown as between east port and west port. The display also shows the slot number occupied by each ML-MR-10 card on its respective node.

The RPR-IEEE ring display is based only on the provisioned circuit state, since CTC is not updated with RPR-IEEE failure cases or ML-MR-10 card in passthrough mode.

CTC also displays incomplete RPR-IEEE topologes so you can identify which segment of the RPR-IEEE topology you need to create. A maximum number of 254 ML-MR-10 cards are supported in one RPR-IEEE topology.