Campus Fabric Installation and Configuration Student Guide

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Fabric Connect and IS-IS

• Fabric Connect is built upon the IS-IS protocol.
• The purpose of Backbone VLANs (BVLANs) in the fabric forwarding plane is to provide a scalable and flexible network architecture.
• An IS-IS adjacency is formed through the exchange of hello packets.
• IS-IS link metrics and Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) are used to determine the best path for data transmission.
• The CLI commands required to integrate a node into an SPBM fabric are not specified in the text.

SPB Fabric Configuration

• The Extreme Networks SPB Best Practices for fabric configuration are focused on ensuring scalability, flexibility, and reliability.
• The purpose of using two B-VLANs in SPB fabric is to provide redundancy and ensure network availability.
• Backbone VLANs (B-VLANs) are created in SPB through the use of CLI commands.
• When SPB is enabled on an interface, NNI ports are converted to SPB ports.
• The core switches learn the B-VLAN information through the exchange of IS-IS packets.
• Traffic inside B-VLANs is encapsulated in an SPB network using MAC-in-MAC encapsulation.
• The maximum number of B-VLANs supported in the current release of SPB is not specified in the text.
• A backbone VLAN can be transported through non-SPB switches in scenarios where it is necessary to extend the SPB network.
• Two B-VLANs are not used for redundancy because it would lead to network instability.
• IS-IS uses the MAC Address Table to program the B-VLAN information.
• The VLAN is automatically added to a B-VLAN when SPB is enabled on a port.

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