[f-nsp] Link Aggregation between Foundry and Cisco

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hey Mike,

You wouldn't happen to know what version of code or when they started 
supporting dynamic LACP over tagged links would be would you?

Joe

On 1/7/2011 8:15 PM, Mike Allen wrote:
> Joe, Scott is likely on the right track.  Early versions of B4000/8000 
> code did not support dynamic LACP over tagged links.  Given that, your 
> options are upgrading to a newer release, or use static trunks as you 
> mentioned.  If you do the upgrade and then do LACP over a tagged port, 
> make sure you use a LACP key.  Other than that, it should work just 
> fine between vendors.  Hope that helps.
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Joseph Hardeman <jwhardeman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jwhardeman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 1/7/2011 7:36 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Joseph
>         Hardeman<jwhardeman at gmail.com <mailto:jwhardeman at gmail.com>>
>          wrote:
>
>             Hi Everyone,
>
>             I am having a bit of an issue, I have gotten a pair of
>             Cisco 6509's with the
>             SUP-720 engines.  I am trying to configure link
>             aggregation between one of
>             these to a BI4000 I have to test with before we put them
>             into production and
>             connect them to our BI8000's and fight this problem then.
>              I have been
>             searching and looking at the docs I have.  The
>             configuration I have on the
>             Cisco's allow them to talk over the port channels between
>             each other with no
>             issues.
>
>             I can setup the command "link-aggregation active" on port
>             "ethe 1/5" with no
>             issues it takes the command, but when I go to add a test
>             VLAN on to that
>             port I get the following error message:
>
>             error - some ports are running LACP and can not be tagged
>             ports.
>
>             Here is the command I am running on the BI:
>
>             test(config)#int e 1/5
>             test(config-if-e1000-1/5)#link-aggregate configure key 10000
>             test(config-if-e1000-1/5)#link-aggregate active
>             test(config-if-e1000-1/5)#exit
>             test(config)#vlan 14
>             test(config-vlan-14)#tagged e 1/5
>             error - some ports are running LACP and can not be tagged
>             ports.
>             test(config-vlan-14)#end
>
>             Here is the output of sh int e 1/5"
>             GigabitEthernet1/5 is up, line protocol is up
>              Hardware is GigabitEthernet, address is 00e0.52cc.3b04
>             (bia 00e0.52cc.3b04)
>              Configured speed 1Gbit, actual 1Gbit, configured duplex
>             fdx, actual fdx
>              Member of L2 VLAN ID 1, port is untagged, port state is
>             BLOCKING
>              STP configured to ON, priority is level0, flow control
>             disabled
>              mirror disabled, monitor disabled
>              Not member of any active trunks
>              Not member of any configured trunks
>              No port name
>              MTU 1518 bytes, encapsulation ethernet
>              300 second input rate: 40104 bits/sec, 72 packets/sec,
>             0.00% utilization
>              300 second output rate: 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00%
>             utilization
>              899789 packets input, 62419802 bytes, 0 no buffer
>              Received 372 broadcasts, 899417 multicasts, 0 unicasts
>              0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 ignored
>              0 runts, 0 giants, DMA received 899786 packets
>              0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
>
>         >    Transmitted 0 broadcasts, 0 multicasts, 0 unicasts
>
>              0 output errors, 0 collisions, DMA transmitted 0 packets
>
>
>             Output of sh link-aggregation:
>             Long  timeout: 90, default: 90
>             Short timeout: 3, default: 3
>             Port  [Sys P] [Port P] [ Key ]
>             [Act][Tio][Agg][Syn][Col][Dis][Def][Exp][Ope]
>             1/5        1        1       0   Yes   S   Agg  Syn  Col
>              Dis  Def  No   Blo
>
>
>             So my question is what am I missing here?   From
>             everything I found, all I
>             have to do after setting 1 or more ports into a
>             link-aggregation is to add
>             the VLAN's as tagged to the ports with the same key.  But
>             its not allowing
>             me to add the tagged vlans.
>
>             Any suggestions?
>
>             Thanks
>
>             Joe
>             _______________________________________________
>
>
>         I've had similar problems before.
>         My bookmark takes me to:
>
>         http://www.techsneeze.com/create-vlan-trunk-between-cisco-ios-and-foundry-bigiron
>
>         Dave
>
>     Hi Dave
>
>     Thanks for the link, but its only showing how to tag a vlan to the
>     port, which what I am currently doing but with the new ciscos and
>     adding more fiber between our routers and switches I wanted to be
>     able to do link aggregation.  I am guessing I can't with this
>     system unless I go with Trunk mode.
>
>     Joe
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     foundry-nsp mailing list
>     foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net <mailto:foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>     http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/foundry-nsp/attachments/20110107/e36b05d6/attachment.html>