Friday, November 21, 2014

Dell 62XX Switch: CLI Configuration Of A LACP LAG (Link Aggregation) For Uplinks

Dell switches are pretty much at the bottom of my list of switches to use in an enterprise environment.  I have just seen too many issues with them.  Performance being one, reliability being the other.  But, they are out there in the world and you have to work with them at times.  So, I had to configure a LAG between this Dell 6200 to a Brocade ICX using LACP.  Here is the Dell side of the config in CLI

interface port-channel 1
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,15
exit

interface ethernet 1/g47
channel-group 1 mode auto
switchport mode general
switchport general pvid 10
switchport general allowed vlan add 10
switchport general allowed vlan add 15 tagged
exit
!
interface ethernet 1/g48
channel-group 1 mode auto
switchport mode general
switchport general pvid 10
switchport general allowed vlan add 10
switchport general allowed vlan add 15 tagged
exit

Now verify:
console#show interfaces port-channel 1

Channel   Ports                         Hash Algorithm Type
-------   ----------------------------- -------------------
ch1       Inactive: 1/g47, 1/g48        3

Hash Algorithm Type
1 - Source MAC, VLAN, EtherType, source module and port Id
2 - Destination MAC, VLAN, EtherType, source module and port Id
3 - Source IP and source TCP/UDP port
4 - Destination IP and destination TCP/UDP port
5 - Source/Destination MAC, VLAN, EtherType, source MODID/port
6 - Source/Destination IP and source/destination TCP/UDP port

console#

2 comments:

  1. Shane, you are indeed a brave soul...in fact, I am raising my glass of Dr. Pepper towards Alabama right now! I worked with Dell switches a number of years ago and never again. Like you said, reliability was poor...flaky is the word that comes to mind.

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    1. I may have been a bit misleading about Dell switches and what I think about them. There is no way I would ever recommend them to a customer.

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