[SUMMARY] ISL with Brocade Silkworm 2800's

With a big thanks to Tom Andrasi, I managed to solve the problem.

Turns out all the ports on both switches had been disabled for E_Port use
by whoever had the switches before me.

Even using the configdefault command didnt reset them back to the default
of allowed.

Once I re-enabled the ports I needed for E_port use via the portcfgeport
command, everything is working.



On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Steve Mickeler wrote:

> Having run out of resources I'm hoping the list can lend me a hand.
>
> I'm in the middle of setting up dedicated SAN for backups with 2 Brocade
> 2800's and for the life of me I cannot get the 2 switches to join into a
> single fabric with either 1, 2 or 3 ISL links between them.
>
> What seems to be happening is that switch2 doesnt seem to be entering
> the subordinate switchRole and picking up the zone info from switch 1 and
> then its segments the fabric instead of creating one between the 2
> switches.
>
> The error I keep getting is:
>
> WARNING FABRIC-SEGMENTED, 3, port 13, disabled E_Port
>
> switch1 = domain id: 1 - Only switch with configed zone info
> switch2 = domain id: 2 - no zone info
>
> Here's the switch info for both switches.
>
> admin> version
> Kernel:     5.4
> Fabric OS:  v2.6.1b
> Made on:    Thu Aug 14 17:29:18 PDT 2003
> Flash:      Thu Aug 14 17:29:57 PDT 2003
> BootProm:   Thu Jun 17 15:20:39 PDT 1999
>
> switchShow on switch 1 shows
>
> switchRole:     Principal
> switchDomain:   1
> Zoning:         ON (backup_san)
>
> port 13: id  Online        E-Port  (segmented,disabled E_Port)
>
> switchShow on switch 2 shows:
>
> switchRole:     Principal
> switchDomain:   2
> Zoning:         OFF
>
> port 13: id  Online        E-Port  (segmented,disabled E_Port)
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