Enabling ISL encryption in a Brocade switch

After setting the authentication policy and secret, you must enable ISL encryption on the Brocade 6510 switches.

1. Disable the switch: switchdisable
2. Enable encryption on all the ISL ports: portCfgEncrypt --enable port_number
   Example
   In the following example, the encryption is enabled on ports 8 and 12:portCfgEncrypt --enable 8portCfgEncrypt --enable 12
3. Enable the switch: switchenable
4. Verify that the ISL is up and working:islshow
5. Verify that the encryption is enabled:portenccompshow
   Example
   The following example shows the encryption is enabled on ports 8 and 12:

   User Encryption        
   Port  configured     Active
   ----   ----------    ------
    8      yes          yes
    9      No           No
    10     No           No
    11     No           No
    12     yes          yes