Unless you like losing traffic or looping traffic stay away from unconditional channeling.
There are a number of situations ranging from a failing linecard/port to a simple misconfig that will leave the links up but not properly functional. Possible issues... All traffic going down link X is lost... Far end thinks link1 and link2 are normal ports and creates a loop condition... etc.. Use active signaling wherever possible... Fast timing whereyou have good nodes doing hardware offload, slow timing with less ideal boxen. BTW: with LACP, Active v.s. Passive has to do with if we initiate LACP traffic, LACP v.s. fixed on channeling is something else. On 10/17/2013 1:00 PM, Keith wrote: > Hi. > > Any reason not to run LACP on a LAG link? > > Setting up a new LAG with some gear on our MX and have setup the AE > interface and turned it up, but have not actually cut traffic over to it yet. > > They were saying run in passive or no LACP, with it just > > On cisco one does: channel-group <x> mode on/active/passive and I > did have trouble getting both sides to come up properly on the cisco, one > side would always come up suspended until I set the ports to just on. > > I have done the same on the MX side, except I did not use > aggregated-ether-options lacp > and just left that statement out. > > Both sides came up on the MX and it looks ok. Am I going to get bitten in the > ass > at some point for not running LACP? > > Docs I see always configure LACP for LAGs, and mention not running it but > never really > why you would. > > Thanks, > Keith > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher E. Brown <chris.br...@acsalaska.net> desk (907) 550-8393 cell (907) 632-8492 IP Engineer - ACS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp