[c-nsp] VSS to vPC - vPC to Etherchannel

[Andrew Miehs]

The cisco documentation recommends static as the recovery times are supposedly faster due to no negotiation. Not really sure if the downsides make up for that though.

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On 17/03/2013, at 11:31, Joseph Hardeman <jwhardeman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gert,
> 
> I was thinking about it today and it was only last year that I got this advice from the CCIE we were working with at the time.  I should have questioned his recommendation and kept using the mode auto like I had been doing.  
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:28:42AM -0400, Joseph Hardeman wrote:
>> > No actually they are configured as "mode on" no LACP.  I spoke with a CCIE
>> > a couple of years ago and he told me that use mode on from switch to switch
>> > and lacp from switch to server so thats what I am putting in.
>> 
>> That was years ago, and is not good advice today.  Propably wasn't good
>> advice then, but that depends on "how many years ago"...
>> 
>> With LACP you'll *know* that both ports belong to the same channel on the
>> other side, and both are ready to be used, not "uh, link up, but line card
>> crashed" or "this is a multichannel LAG, and one of the chassis' is just
>> booting and not really participating yet", or such.
>> 
>> gert
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