Port Pairing in WSA S695

[Jay Tiwari]

Hi Experts,

My customer is asking for Port Pairing (NIC Teaming) for Data port. The customer is going to use only one Data Port for to and fro traffic and want to pair P1 and P2 interface.

My question to you is if there is any downside of using port pairing feature in WSA appliances?

Regards,

Jay

[balaji.bandi]

WSA does not support NIC Teaming, unfortunately.

It is good to have features if anyone buys 1 Gig port - the next box is 10Gig port only. ( need to be careful while ordering), what ports required.

it should have 2 GIG port-channel features, good if Cisco considers this feature long pending.

[Jay Tiwari]

Thanks, Balaji for your response.

I would like to update you that i quick discussion with Senior TAC guy and he said that NIC teaming or NIC pairing is available from Async OS 11.7.

Regards,

Jay

[balaji.bandi]

Nice to know - Can TAC pointed any document to look ? you may have internal information,. as such document i did not find or missed.,

[opryluts · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

You are looking for NIC pairing feature. It is available in CLI -> etherconfig -> pairing.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/wsa/wsa11-7/user_guide/b_WSA_UserGuide_11_7/b_WSA_UserGuide_11_7_appendix_011000.html?bookSearch=true#con_1092433

Please note that the feature creates an Active/Standby pair, so only 1 interface in the pair will be sending/receiving traffic and 2nd one will take over in case of the 1st one fails.

Please vore if you find it helpful. 

[balaji.bandi]

Thank you for the document, but I was disappointed, the feature I was looking bundling to increase the capacity, not active standby.

[opryluts]

It might look confusing but it is an active/standby pairing only