Perfect thanks everyone for the replies - this is exactly what I was looking for.
Spanning tree was also a quick, easy option too - but vPC was what I was looking for. On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Andrew Jones <andrew.jo...@optus.com.au> wrote: > Here you go - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/ > nexus3000/sw/layer2/503_U2_1/b_Cisco_n3k_layer2_config_ > guide_503_U2_1/b_Cisco_n3k_layer2_config_gd_503_U2_1_chapter_01000.html > > > > Andrew Jones > > 0435 658 228 > > > > *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-boun...@lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *James > Cunningham > *Sent:* Friday, 20 April 2018 9:18 AM > *To:* ausnog@lists.ausnog.net > *Subject:* [AusNOG] How to setup something like LACP across two switches > > > > Hello Fellow Ausnoggers, > > > > I'm hoping that I can quickly pick the brain of someone more knowledgeable > in data centre networking than myself. > > > > We have a customer in one of our racks in Equinix who has a single network > switch, and some servers connected to it. We currently have two connections > from our switch to the customer's switch, with LACP for redundancy (and as > a side effect, we get a slight bandwidth boost for 2 x 1Gbps connections, > which is a slight bonus). > > > > We would like to improve this by putting in two network switches on our > end, to protect again a single switch failure on our side, but the customer > will still have one single network switch. > > > > I'm pretty sure we can't do LACP with this style of setup - so what would > people recommend to achieve redundancy here? Main thing is that the > connection needs to auto-failover if a network switch fails, or if one of > the uplinks fails. > > > > I have created the attached diagram which illustrates what we are trying > to do. > > > > Can anyone please help? I'll owe a beer at the Next AusNOG meetup! > > > > Thanks > > > > James >
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