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Setting an EX3300 or EX4200 Uplink Port as a Virtual Chassis Port Using the LCD Panel

You must interconnect EX3300 switches using uplink port connections to form an EX3300 Virtual Chassis.

You can interconnect EX4200 switches that are beyond the reach of the Virtual Chassis cables as members of a Virtual Chassis by using SFP, SFP+, and XFP uplink module ports.

Note: You cannot set a 1000BASE-T copper SFP transceiver (EX-SFP-1GE-T) connection as a VCP.

This procedure is usually not needed to configure an EX3300 Virtual Chassis. Uplink ports 2 and 3 on an EX3300 switch are configured as VCPs by default and, therefore, do not require user configuration to be set as VCPs. We recommend that you use this procedure only to configure an uplink port on an EX3300 switch as a VCP if you configured ports 2 and 3 as network uplink ports and the ports need to be reconfigured as VCPs, or in cases when uplink ports 2 and 3 cannot be used as VCPs for an unexpected reason. You can use this procedure to configure any uplink port on an EX3300 switch as a VCP.

This topic describes how to set or delete the uplink ports as VCPs using the LCD panel.

The following procedure shows how to configure uplink module port ge-0/1/2 as a VCP.

To set an uplink port as a VCP using the LCD panel:

  1. Press Menu until you see MAINTENANCE MENU.
  2. Press Menu until you see REQUEST VC PORT.
  3. Press Enter. You will see SET VC PORT?.
  4. Press Enter. You will see SET FPC 0?.
  5. Press Enter. You will see SET PIC 0?.
  6. Press Menu until you see SET PIC 1?.
  7. Press Enter. You will see SET PORT 0?.
  8. Press Menu until you see SET PORT 2?.
  9. Press Enter. You will see CONFIGURING ....
  10. Once the configuration has been accepted, press Enter to return to the MAINTENANCE menu.

You can also use the LCD panel to delete a VCP, thus resetting the port to an uplink port.

To reset vcp-0/1/2 to an uplink port using the LCD panel:

  1. Press Menu until you see MAINTENANCE MENU.
  2. Press Menu until you see REQUEST VC PORT.
  3. Press Enter. You will see SET VC PORT?.
  4. Press Menu. You will see DELETE VC PORT?.
  5. Press Enter. You will see DELETE FPC 0?.
  6. Press Enter. You will see DELETE PIC 0?.
  7. Press Menu until you see DELETE PIC 1?.
  8. Press Enter. You will see DELETE PORT 0?.
  9. Press Menu until you see DELETE PORT 2?.
  10. Press Enter. You will see CONFIGURING ....
  11. Once the configuration has been accepted, press Enter to return to the MAINTENANCE menu.
 

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Published: 2012-12-07

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