Main link restoration control method and switching system

A control method and the technology of the main switch, which are applied in the field of switch systems, can solve problems such as lost data, failure of the switch system to transmit, low reliability of the switch system, etc.

CN102055660AActive Publication Date: 2011-05-11NEW H3C TECH CO LTD
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CN · China
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2011-05-11

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Abstract

The invention discloses a main link restoration control method and a switching system. The main link restoration control method comprises the following steps of: initiating a first notification message which indicates that a main link fails by an upstream switch of the failed main link, and transmitting the first notification message among switches connected by all normal links; if the first notification message can be transmitted to a main switch, sending a second notification message which indicates that a domain identity (ID) needs to be requested again to all switches by the main switch; if the second notification message can be received by a downstream switch of the failed main link, recording a link in which a port receiving the second notification message is positioned as a new upstream main link, and requesting the domain ID to the main switch sequentially with switches connected with other all normal links again, so that the main link in the switch system is restored; therefore, reconfiguration is not needed to be initiated by the switch system in which the main switch is positioned, the phenomenon that data cannot be transmitted by the switch system in a long period of time required by the reconfiguration is avoided, and the reliability of the switch system is improved.
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[0001] The present invention relates to link recovery control technology, in particular to a main link recovery control method and a switch system based on a fiber channel (Fibre Channel, FC) network and capable of realizing main link recovery. Background technique

[0002] In the existing switch system based on FC network, a master switch is usually selected by the Build Fiber (BF) configuration between the switches, and other switches are non-master switches. The main link described in this paper It is the link used by the non-master switch to communicate with the master switch. The master link can be a direct link between the non-master switch and the master switch, or a link cascaded through other non-master switches.

[0003] For each non-master switch, the master link used to send data to the master switch can be called the upstream master link, and the master link used to forward data from the master switch to the downstream can be called the downstrea...

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[0052] In order to make the object, technical solution and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.

[0053] In the embodiment of the present invention, the switch is divided according to the position of the switch for the failed main link, which can also be regarded as divided according to the role, and can be divided into the following three types:

[0054] The downstream switch whose upstream main link fails, that is, the switch at the downstream end of the failed main link, if the failed main link is a complete main link composed of a direct connection between a non-main switch and the main switch, then the downstream switch of the failed main link is a complete The non-main switch at the end of the main link communicates with the main switch; if the failed main link is the last section of the complete main link formed by cascading the non-master swi...