[AusNOG] How to setup something like LACP across two switches

[Tony Clough]

VPC

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



On 20/04/18 09:17, James Cunningham wrote:
> 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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