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If your message was personal or of a "non-urgent" nature, I'll reply as soon as I can. Wayne >>> Ian Lyons <[email protected]> 11/25/13 07:36 >>> Good Morning I have done both. For years I had a primary and secondary link going to each of my "core" routers (those that connect to the internet). Every thing was good. I did make sure that root bridge was set for each router and each routers subsequent switches. I also monitored the status of the "changes".... Recently, we merged the 2 cores and I went to Lagging. Aside from the time it took to create the links everything is working well and has been for about a 6 months. I tested the bejesus out of it (pulling link cables) and even the pickiest application handles the link state changes well. Both work... Dealers choice. Ian Cheers, Ian J. Lyons Manager of Network Services RISD 401.454.6779 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them"- Physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathon Kozol "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903) British author, economist, philosopher "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge "You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do." Anonymous On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM, James Andrewartha < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm setting up dual fibre links between our core and edge switches, and > was pondering whether to set up link aggregation or use MSTP to balance > the traffic across the links. My primary concern is for redundancy, not > extra bandwidth (I just checked cacti, and most don't sustain 100Mb/s). > How do MSTP and LACP compare for failover times? > > The other thing about LACP is the config overhead of having to set the > aadminkey on the physical and LAG ports plus ensuring the VLANs match. > Whereas with MSTP I don't have to worry about the LAG port, and can just > set a port priority on the SID to balance the traffic if required. > > I'm leaning towards MSTP, but every man and his dog seems to have a > spanning-tree meltdown story. All the switches will be Enterasys (S4 at > the core, B3/B5 at the edge) so you'd think it should all work fine. > Opinions? > > Thanks, > > -- > James Andrewartha > Network & Projects Engineer > Christ Church Grammar School > Claremont, Western Australia > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > Mob. 0424 160 877 > > --- > To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the > body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] > --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
