Users Guide

27 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)...............................................................................................468
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................. 468
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 468
LACP Modes............................................................................................................................................................ 469
Conguring LACP Commands...............................................................................................................................469
LACP Conguration Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 470
Creating a LAG.........................................................................................................................................................470
Conguring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic........................................................................................................ 470
Setting the LACP Long Timeout............................................................................................................................ 471
Monitoring and Debugging LACP...........................................................................................................................471
Shared LAG State Tracking...........................................................................................................................................472
Conguring Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................... 472
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................... 473
LACP Basic Conguration Example.............................................................................................................................474
Congure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................474
28 Layer 2.....................................................................................................................................................483
Manage the MAC Address Table................................................................................................................................. 483
Clearing the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................... 483
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries........................................................................................................483
Conguring a Static MAC Address........................................................................................................................484
Displaying the MAC Address Table........................................................................................................................ 484
MAC Learning Limit....................................................................................................................................................... 484
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 485
mac learning-limit Dynamic.................................................................................................................................... 485
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................. 485
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 486
mac learning-limit no-station-move...................................................................................................................... 486
Learning Limit Violation Actions.............................................................................................................................486
Setting Station Move Violation Actions................................................................................................................ 486
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations............................................................................487
Disabling MAC Address Learning on the System.................................................................................................487
NIC Teaming................................................................................................................................................................... 488
Congure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................489
Important Points about Conguring Redundant Pairs........................................................................................ 490
Far-End Failure Detection............................................................................................................................................. 492
FEFD State Changes...............................................................................................................................................492
Conguring FEFD.................................................................................................................................................... 493
Enabling FEFD on an Interface...............................................................................................................................494
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................................................495
29 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)......................................................................................................497
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................497
Protocol Data Units..................................................................................................................................................497
Optional TLVs................................................................................................................................................................. 498
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 498
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