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 <[email protected]> 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 > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
