[j-nsp] EX4550: LACP channels short lost after commit

Olivier Benghozi olivier.benghozi at wifirst.fr
Fri Oct 30 10:05:27 EDT 2015


Infamous LAG LACP flap...
I think there are several factors: crappy Junos code, LACP is CPU managed (at least on EX), so a pike in CPU (or a latency in the dedicated process) can break LAGs (make them flap in fact).
I had some similar issues with SRX code.

Go for slow LACP rate (30 seconds instead of 1 second, like Cisco by default), it will probably work around it efficiently...
Suggestion for your ae config:

aggregated-ether-options {
    link-speed 10g;
    lacp {
        active;
        periodic slow;
    }
}


> Le 30 oct. 2015 à 14:38, Jeff Meyers <Jeff.Meyers at gmx.net> a écrit :
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> yesterday we had a very small hickup on a bunch of EX4550 doing Layer2 only in a Virtual-Chassis. According to the logfiles, there were some LACP changes on multiple independent channels on various fpcs so I couldn't spot just one VC member as a source.
> 
> Now, just 1 hour ago, I saw more or less the same messages after a commit: http://nopaste.linux-dev.org/?797124
> 
> 
> Is this something I should worry about? At least there didn't seem to be any problem visible in the network but I'm quite unsure if this is just related to the commit (but doesn't happen every commit) because the EX needs to activate the new configuration (just added one vlan to a 10GE port not in a channel) or if there is something suspicious going on.
> 
> We are currently running 12.3R4.6 on the VC with 3 members.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
> 
> Best,
> Jeff



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