04-05-2007
Link Aggregation and LACP
Hi there
I have a requirement to provide failover to our customer boxes in case of interface / switch failure, I have been looking at Solaris Link Aggregation with LACP and I wanted to ask a question
Ive seen multiple websites that say the following
Quote:
You cannot use link aggregation if you are using two separate switches. As per IEEE 802.3ad, an aggregation connects two end-points. Some switch vendors implement their own extensions which allows a single "logical" aggregation to span multiple switches, but these solutions are not yet common and don't always explicitly
support 802.3ad.
Does this also mean that if the switches are
trunked together that you still cant use 2 switches ??. One absolute requirement of this project is that I use 2 seperate switches, so if this isnt possible, then Ill have to look into IPMP or something else
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Gary
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flow-gen
flow-gen(1) General Commands Manual flow-gen(1)
NAME
flow-gen -- Generate test flows
SYNOPSIS
flow-gen [-h] [-b big|little] [-d debug_level] [-n count] [-V version] [-z z_level]
DESCRIPTION
The flow-gen utility generates a test pattern of flows in any of the currently supported export versions typically for debugging purposes.
OPTIONS
-b big|little
Byte order of output.
-d debug_level
Enable debugging.
-h Display help.
-n count Generate count flows. Default 1000.
-V version
Generate version type exports. Supported versions are:
1 NetFlow version 1 (No sequence numbers, AS, or mask)
5 NetFlow version 5
6 NetFlow version 6 (5+ Encapsulation size)
7 NetFlow version 7 (Catalyst switches)
8.1 NetFlow AS Aggregation
8.2 NetFlow Proto Port Aggregation
8.3 NetFlow Source Prefix Aggregation
8.4 NetFlow Destination Prefix Aggregation
8.5 NetFlow Prefix Aggregation
8.6 NetFlow Destination (Catalyst switches)
8.7 NetFlow Source Destination (Catalyst switches)
8.8 NetFlow Full Flow (Catalyst switches)
8.9 NetFlow ToS AS Aggregation
8.10 NetFlow ToS Proto Port Aggregation
8.11 NetFlow ToS Source Prefix Aggregation
8.12 NetFlow ToS Destination Prefix Aggregation
8.13 NetFlow ToS Prefix Aggregation
8.14 NetFlow ToS Prefix Port Aggregation
1005 Flow-Tools tagged version 5
-z z_level
Configure compression level to z_level. 0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.
EXAMPLES
Generate a test pattern of 1000 version 5 flows and send them in the Cisco NetFlow packet format to 10.0.0.1 port 9500.
flow-gen -V5 | flow-send 0/10.0.0.1/9500
BUGS
The test pattern may change between releases.
AUTHOR
Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net
SEE ALSO
flow-tools(1)
flow-gen(1)