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

[James Cunningham]

 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.Jones at 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
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> Andrew Jones
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> 0435 658 228
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *James
> Cunningham
> *Sent:* Friday, 20 April 2018 9:18 AM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] How to setup something like LACP across two switches
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> Hello Fellow Ausnoggers,
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> I'm hoping that I can quickly pick the brain of someone more knowledgeable
> in data centre networking than myself.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I have created the attached diagram which illustrates what we are trying
> to do.
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> Can anyone please help? I'll owe a beer at the Next AusNOG meetup!
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> Thanks
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> James
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