[j-nsp] 802.3ad LAG between ASR 1002-X and Juniper MX204

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Sat Jul 20 06:06:37 EDT 2019



On 19/Jul/19 22:33, Olivier Benghozi wrote:

> Yes, you'd better drop all the hash+loadbalance+linkindex conf (by the way, on MX the "hash-key" knob is only for DPC cards, 10+ years old).
>
> However about the LAG itself, if you want something reliable you really should use LACP instead of static LAG.
> Static LAGs, a good way to get your traffic lost...

We now restrict LAG's to router-switch 802.1Q trunks.

On backbone links, we've found regular IP ECMP to be more reliable than
LAG's.

Mark.


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