Possible issues with setting up IRF ring topology

[fellixx]

We recently installed 4 5800AF-48G switches initially in a daisy chained toplogy.  We then went ahead and configured IRF port 2 on SW1 and IRF port 1 on SW4 to complete the ring topology per the IRF configuration guide.  

All the ports were enabled but when we check the IRF topology we see the following:

Topology Info
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IRF-Port1                                                   IRF-Port2
MemberID             Link                 neighbor                            Link                               neighbor                      Belong To
4                               DOWN             --                                          UP                                  3                                      cc3e-5fa0-8698
3                               UP                    4                                           UP                                   2                                      cc3e-5fa0-8698
2                               UP                    3                                           UP                                   1                                      cc3e-5fa0-8698
1                               UP                    2                                           DOWN                            --                                     cc3e-5fa0-8698

When we do a show IRF configuration we see the following:

MemberID             NewID                                                          IRF-Port1                                                             IRF-Port2
1                               1                                                                     Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/53                         Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/54
2                               2                                                                     Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/53                         Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/54
3                               3                                                                     Ten-GigabitEthernet3/0/53                         Ten-GigabitEthernet3/0/54
4                               4                                                                     Ten-GigabitEthernet4/0/53                         Ten-GigabitEthernet4/0/54

All ports are enabled 

irf-port 1/1
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/53 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 1/2
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/54 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 2/1
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/53 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 2/2
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet2/0/54 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 3/1
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet3/0/53 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 3/2
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet3/0/54 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 4/1
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet4/0/53 mode enhanced
#
irf-port 4/2
port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet4/0/54 mode enhanced

For switches configured with spanning tree I would expect that certain ports blocked but its been my understanding in a IRF configuration all ports are active and transfering traffic.  Is this correct behavior or are we missing something?

Thanks in advance. 

[Vince-Whirlwind]

Swap the cable between 1 & 4 over with any of the other working cables?

[fellixx]

Havent tried that yet as it is a brand new cable though we havent discounted the possibility it could be bad.  What I would like to confirm is whether or not all ports should how as being in an UP status in an IRF configuration.  

[sjhwilkes]

Yes they should all be up.

[fellixx]

Just to close this out, we did finally figure out what the issue was.  After we connected the SFP+ cable to complete the ring and enabled the respective ports,  we needed to again initiate the following command to make the IRF configuration active:

irf-port-configuration active

Once we did this the IRF ports came online.  

Thanks to all that replied.

PTH