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Verifying That Virtual Chassis Ports on an EX Series Switch Are Operational

Purpose

Display the status of Virtual Chassis ports (VCPs) in a Virtual Chassis.

Note: The interfaces for VCPs are not displayed when you issue the show interfaces ge- command.

Action

Display the VCPs:

user@switch> show virtual-chassis vc-port all-members
fpc0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interface   Type              Trunk  Status       Speed        Neighbor
or                             ID                 (mbps)       ID  Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0       Dedicated           1    Up           32000        1   vcp-0
vcp-1       Dedicated           2    Up           32000        1   vcp-1
1/0         Configured          3    Up           1000         2   vcp-255/1/0
1/1         Configured          3    Up           1000         2   vcp-255/1/1
1/2         Configured          4    Up           1000         4   vcp-255/0/20
1/3         Configured          4    Up           1000         4   vcp-255/0/21

fpc1:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interface   Type              Trunk  Status       Speed        Neighbor
or                             ID                 (mbps)       ID  Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0       Dedicated           1    Up           32000        0   vcp-0
vcp-1       Dedicated           2    Up           32000        0   vcp-1
1/0         Configured          3    Up           10000        3   vcp-255/1/0
1/1         Configured          3    Up           10000        3   vcp-255/1/1

fpc2:               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interface   Type              Trunk  Status       Speed        Neighbor
or                             ID                 (mbps)       ID  Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0       Dedicated           1    Up           32000        3   vcp-0
vcp-1       Dedicated           2    Up           32000        3   vcp-1
1/0         Configured          3    Up           1000         0   vcp-255/1/0
1/1         Configured          3    Up           1000         0   vcp-255/1/1
1/2                            —1    Down         1000
1/3                            —1    Down         1000

fpc3:               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interface   Type              Trunk  Status       Speed        Neighbor
or                             ID                 (mbps)       ID  Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0       Dedicated           1    Up           32000        2   vcp-0
vcp-1       Dedicated           2    Up           32000        2   vcp-1
1/0         Configured          3    Up           10000        1   vcp-255/1/0
1/1         Configured          3    Up           10000        1   vcp-255/1/1

fpc4:               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interface   Type              Trunk  Status       Speed        Neighbor
or                             ID                 (mbps)       ID  Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0       Dedicated           1    Down         32000
vcp-1       Dedicated           2    Down         32000
0/20        Configured          3    Up           1000         0   vcp-255/1/2
0/21        Configured          3    Up           1000         0   vcp-255/1/3
  

Meaning

The dedicated VCPs are displayed as vcp-0 and vcp-1. The uplink interfaces that have been set as uplink VCPs are displayed as 1/0, 1/1, 1/2, and 1/3. The network interfaces that have been set as VCPs are displayed as 0/20 and 0/21. The neighbor interface names of uplink and network VCPs are of the form vcp-255/pic/port—for example, vcp-255/1/0. In that name, vcp-255 indicates that the interface is a VCP, 1 is the uplink PIC number, and 0 is the port number. The fpc number is the same as the member ID. The trunk ID is a positive number ID assigned to the link aggregation group (LAG) formed by the Virtual Chassis. If no LAG is formed, the value is –1.

Note: This example uses output from an EX4200 Virtual Chassis. The output would be identical on all other types of Virtual Chassis.

Published: 2012-12-07