[f-nsp] Gracefully remove port from LAG on CER/MLX?

[Clement Cavadore]

Hello James,

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 11:09 -0400, James Cornman wrote:

> I'm looking to remove one port from an already established LAG group
> with 1Gbps of traffic on it. I don't want the traffic to just fall on
> the floor. I'm wondering if anyone has any confirmation whether
> disabling a port will work in any sort of graceful manner, or if I
> should plan for the worst. I'm inclined to think it will be service
> affecting but just curious if there is some 'magic' to this.
> 
> 
> I want to do this on CER platform right now, but also want to know for
> general knowledge how this works on MLX platform as well.

It is supposed to be graceful (add or remove member inside a LAG),
*except* if it is the primary port. If it's the case, you will have to
completely undeploy the LAG, reconfigure it, and re-deploy it.

You can disable the port inside the LAG config, before removing it.

Regards,

-- 
Clément Cavadore