01-24-2012 10:15 AM
We are currently working in a lab to configure our first pair of 5548UP(with a 2232PP on each) with FCoE to an IBM p740 AIX server. On the Nexus side I have confugured the physical port e100/1/1 (2232pp) to be in a channel-group that will be part of a vpc with the other 5548UP switch, I am trunking all vlans in the etherchannel with the IBM server. Everything is working, i have the port-channel UP, the vfc and vpc when I use ''channel-group x mode ON'' on the physical ports and on the server side the 803.2ad is not active, it's configured ''roundRobin''.
Suppose I want to use LACP for the connections with the server should I configure the Nexus switch port with ''channel-group x mode active'' or ''channel-group x mode passive''? When the server is configured with ''802.3ad'' enabled and when I have ''channel-group x mode active'' or ''passive'' it doesn't work, the port-channel x does not come UP.
Does anyone have an explenation of how I should be configure?
Thanks
02-07-2012 10:52 AM
Hello,
Using LACP passive or active mode should not make much of a difference as long as one of the sides of the port-channel actively negotiates LACP. In most cases, we just configure both sides to be LACP active.
'show port-channel summary' will show this
This command will tell you if the Nexus 5K/2K is receiving LACPDUs from the IBM device (and if we are sending them). I would suggest to collect the LACP counters to verify that we are receiving the LACP packets from IBM, otherwise Nexus will not bring up the port-channel. Here is an example output from my lab switch:
5548-2019# show lacp counters interface port-channel 500
LACPDUs Marker Marker Response LACPDUs
Port Sent Recv Sent Recv Sent Recv Pkts Err
---------------------------------------------------------------------
port-channel500
Ethernet1/15 16401 16399 0 0 0 0 0
Ethernet1/16 16400 16399 0 0 0 0 0
Regards,
Steven
06-06-2013 04:36 PM
I have this same issue with an IBM Power7-780 system using a Cisco 5548UP with 10Gb SFP's. When we would look at the "show lacp counters" we would see sent counter incrementing but the received was 0. We were/have not able to find a resolution.
06-07-2013 07:03 AM
It' been a while since we that problem originaly if I remember correctly it was an issue with the version of the drivers on the NIC card of the IBM server, make sure you have the last version of drivers on the servers.
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