Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 04), Damien Fleuriot said: > I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. > > On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > > I have created the following 2 lagg devices using LACP:

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/4/11 4:55 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. >> >> On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 >> On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 >> >> I have

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. > > On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > > I have created the following 2 lagg devices using LACP

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/4/11 2:51 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On 2/4/2011 2:35 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> Even if I can't concatenate my 2 lagg interfaces into a failover one >> over the 2 switches, the new setup will still be an improvement. > > Did you consider using STP? Are these switches RSTP capable? >

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/4/11 1:42 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2011 13:13:52 Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> >> >> I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. >> >> On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 >> On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/4/2011 2:35 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Even if I can't concatenate my 2 lagg interfaces into a failover one over the 2 switches, the new setup will still be an improvement. Did you consider using STP? Are these switches RSTP capable? You could create a low priority bridge acting as leaf n

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
On Friday 04 February 2011 13:13:52 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hello list, > > > > I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. > > On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 > > > I have created the foll

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/4/11 1:19 PM, Pete French wrote: > If you want failover using lagg then your best bet is to get lagg between > two ports on different switches. If you have a pair of switches which > will present as a single device then you can use LACP to do this, else > use simple failover. I do this for all

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Pete French
If you want failover using lagg then your best bet is to get lagg between two ports on different switches. If you have a pair of switches which will present as a single device then you can use LACP to do this, else use simple failover. I do this for all our servers and it works very nicely. In you

link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hello list, I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards. On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2 I have created the following 2 lagg devices using LACP: lagg0 = A1 + B1 lagg1 = A2 + B2 This works fin