Provision Edge port control plane parameters

Procedure 9-11.2: Provision Edge port control plane parameters

Overview

Use this procedure to provision the Edge port control plane parameters.

Other port parameters may need to be provisioned first before the control plane parameters. Refer to Chapter 4, Install and provision circuit packs/OLIUs procedures.

Requests to change Port Class from Traditional to Edge are denied if any of the following conditions are true.

There is a loopback on the port.
There is a test access connection on the port.
The port is not a DS3, EC1, VCG or OC-n port.
The Node ID (nodeid) has not been provisioned.
The Edge port parameters (TNA Address Type, TNA Address, Logical Port ID) are not provisioned.

Requests to change Port Class from ENNI to Edge are denied. ENNI ports can only be changed to Traditional ports.

Provisioning restrictions on Edge ports:

The following parameters cannot be provisioned if there is an existing control plane connection on the port or bandwidth on the port is reserved due to a pending connection:
- TNA type (tnatype)
- TNA (tna)
- Logical port identiﬁer (logportid)
Test access connections are not allowed
Loopbacks are only allowed when portcontrol=LOCKOUT

Steps

Complete the following steps to provision the Edge port control plane parameters.


1	Use the `ent-cport-rr` TL1 command to provision the parameters, or select Configuration → Equipment from the System View menu. Select (highlight) the port being provisioned, then click Select.
2	Click the Control Plane tab. Select `Edge` as the Port Class for the port being provisioned. The port class selects the role of the port. Traditional — Traditional port (not a control plane port). Connections on Traditional ports can only be provisioned with `ent`/`dlt-crs`. ENNI — Control plane ENNI port. Connections on ENNI ports can only be provisioned with `ent`/`dlt-conn`. Edge — Control plane EDGE/Drop port. Connections on EDGE ports can be provisioned with `ent`/`dlt-conn` and `ent`/`dlt-crs`.
3	Provision Edge port parameters from your work instructions. Refer to Table 9-1, ENT-CPORT-RR Edge port parameters. End of steps

Edge port parameters

Table 9-1, ENT-CPORT-RR Edge port parameters lists the provisionable parameters for an Edge port:

Table 9-1: ENT-CPORT-RR Edge port parameters

Parameter	Description
tnatype	TNA Address Type. TNA (Transport Network Assigned) Address Type may have one of the following values: IPv4 — An IPv4 formatted Source TNA consisting of four dot-separated integers ranging from 0 to 255, for example: 220.10.10.10. IPv6 — An IPv6 formatted Source TNA consisting of 8 dash-separated 4-digit hexadecimal numbers. For example, fedc-0000-0000-76b4-417a-1080-3210-1111. NSAP — An NSAP formatted Source TNA consisting of a 20- byte (40 hexadecimal digits) string, for example: 39840f8000000000000000000008006a067197aa.
tna	TNA Address. Transport Network Assigned Address. An address assigned to endpoints of the connections by the transport service provider. The same TNA address can be assigned to multiple ports terminating on the same node. It is a required parameter when changing port class to EDGE.
logportid	Logical Port ID. Logical Port Identiﬁer is an integer that identiﬁes the local logical port. It is a required parameter when changing portclass to EDGE or ENNI. Value is an integer in the range from 1 to 4294967295.
portcontrol	Port Control. Port control speciﬁes whether or not a control plane port supports additional control plane connections. Values: NORMAL — Port is allowed to support control plane connections. This is the initial value if portcontrol is not speciﬁed when changing portclass to EDGE or ENNI. LOCKOUT — Port is prohibited from supporting additional control plane connections. Removal of connections is supported.