loopback test in a Brocade

[felipon]

Hi,

Does anyone has a procedure or guideline about how to perform a loopback test in a Brocade FC switch?

I have been reading the manuals and have seen commands such as spinfab, portloobacktest, but it is not very clear to me how they work...

I would like to generate traffic in a port, put a loopback plug in the other end of the fibre and see it errors are generated. Connecting a plug I have been able to test the link, but without traffic...

Is there a way to set an ISL port in 'loopback mode' and make some testing from the remote switch?

Any suggestion is highly appreciated,

Felipon

[Anonymous]

Hi, in FOS 7 and 16Gbps ports have the D-Port that you can use to test an ISL between two switches.

[felipon]

Hi Guldmyr,

I have read about that feature in FOS 7, but my switchs are running FOS 6.4.2a.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

For testing ISL links, I'd recommend spinfab.  It is made to test ISLs.  Here is a quick example testing E_Port 11:

bro:admin> spinfab -ports 11

Running spinfab ..............

spinfab: Completed 11 megs, status:  passed.

port 11 test status: 0x00000000 --  passed.

Test Complete: spinfab Pass 10 of 10

Duration 0 hr, 0 min & 32 sec (0:0:32:721).

passed.

porttest could also be used, even while the E_Port is still up.  Another example on the same port (then monitoring with 'porttestshow'):

bro:admin> porttest -ports 11

bro:admin> porttestshow -ports 11

Port 11 : UNKNOWN

PortType: E PORT                   PortState: TESTING

PortInternalState: TX                      PortTypeToTest: ALL_PORTS

Pattern: 0xb            Seed: 0xaa           UserDelay: 10

TotalIteration: 20                 CurrentIteration: 3

TotalFail: 0                       ConsecutiveFail: 0

StartTime: Wed Mar 21 21:43:04 2012

StopTime:  NONE

Timeout: 0                         ErrorCode: 0

bro:admin> porttestshow -ports 11

Port 11 : PASS

PortType: E PORT                   PortState: TEST DONE

PortInternalState: INIT                    PortTypeToTest: NO_TEST

Pattern: 0xb            Seed: 0xaa           UserDelay: 10

TotalIteration: 20                 CurrentIteration: 20

TotalFail: 0                       ConsecutiveFail: 0

StartTime: Wed Mar 21 21:43:04 2012

StopTime:  Wed Mar 21 21:43:31 2012

Timeout: 0                         ErrorCode: 0

You could run the same porttest on a port with a loopback plug connected as well:

bro:admin> porttest -ports 8

bro:admin> porttestshow -ports 8

Port 8 : PASS

PortType: LOOPBACK PORT            PortState: TEST DONE

PortInternalState: INIT                    PortTypeToTest: NO_TEST

Pattern: 0xb            Seed: 0xaa           UserDelay: 10

TotalIteration: 20                 CurrentIteration: 20

TotalFail: 0                       ConsecutiveFail: 0

StartTime: Wed Mar 21 21:44:13 2012

StopTime:  Wed Mar 21 21:44:20 2012

Timeout: 0                         ErrorCode: 0

[felipon]

Thank you Jaymike3,

I think that that will do.

Rgds