[nog] LACP between swiches and Linux

Svetlana Atanasova svetlana at netissat.bg
Mon Dec 1 10:51:56 EET 2014


Sorry for spamming, now I saw you are asking for different configuration 
:) with TWO switches and it wouldn't be very helpful for you.

On 12/01/2014 10:37 AM, Svetlana Atanasova wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, we are using it and it's working like a charm. It's between Cisco 
> 4948-10G and linux box. Here are the specific configurations:
>
> Cisco:
>  channel-protocol lacp
>  channel-group X mode active
>
> I'm not sure if it was related to problems with etherchannel, but it's 
> a good idea to turn off flow control with command "flowcontrol receive 
> off". Anyway I don't like how flow control works between cisco 
> switches and linux boxes, when it's on there are too many pause frames 
> and it's only on the ports where linux boxes are connected.
>
> Linux:
> in /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf
> options bond0 miimon=100 mode=4 lacp_rate=1
>
> lacp_rate=1 is the most important in this configuration
>
>
> Best Ragards,
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> On 11/28/2014 09:28 PM, Marian Marinov wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>> I'm curious have anyone managed to make LACP working between two Switches and one Linux box?
>> The setup is simple, the linux box has two ethernets, each connected to separate switches. The switches have direct
>> connectivity between them.
>>
>> Is it at all possible. The protocol it self does not impose restrictions on LACP ports to be on the same physical
>> device, but I don't know if there is an HW implementation that can actually do that.
>>
>> Marian
>>
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