The cisco documentation recommends static as the recovery times are supposedly faster due to no negotiation. Not really sure if the downsides make up for that though.
Sent from a mobile device On 17/03/2013, at 11:31, Joseph Hardeman <jwharde...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <g...@greenie.muc.de> 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 >> g...@greenie.muc.de >> fax: +49-89-35655025 >> g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
