Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator's Guide (53-1000603-01, October 2007)

14 iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator’s Guide

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Enabling the GbE interface

To enable the physical ports

1. Connect and log in to the switch.

2. Enter the portCfgShow command with the blade slot number and GbE port number parameters

to display the Persistent Disable setting of the port.

switch:admin> portcfgshow 10/ge0

Mode: ISCSI

Persistent Disable: ON

Ipif configuration:

Interface IP Address NetMask MTU

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0 30.0.130.100 255.255.0.0 1500

Arp configuration:

IP Address Mac Address

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Iproute Configuration:

IP Address Mask Gateway Metric

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switch:admin>

3. If Persistent Disable is set to ON, enter the portCfgPersistentEnable command with the slot

number and GbE port number.

switch:admin> portcfgpersistentenable 10/ge0

4. Enter the portCfgShow command with the slot number and GbE port number to verify that the

port is persistently enabled.

The Persistent Disable settings is set to OFF.