Deployment Guide

Table Of Contents
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP.................................................................................................................463
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 463
LACP Modes...............................................................................................................................................................464
Configuring LACP Commands................................................................................................................................464
LACP Configuration Tasks............................................................................................................................................464
Creating a LAG.......................................................................................................................................................... 465
Configuring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic...................................................................................................... 465
Setting the LACP Long Timeout........................................................................................................................... 465
Monitoring and Debugging LACP..........................................................................................................................466
Shared LAG State Tracking..........................................................................................................................................466
Configuring Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................. 467
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking........................................................................................468
LACP Basic Configuration Example............................................................................................................................469
Configure a LAG on ALPHA....................................................................................................................................469
Chapter 25: Layer 2................................................................................................................... 477
Manage the MAC Address Table.................................................................................................................................477
Clearing the MAC Address Table...........................................................................................................................477
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries...................................................................................................... 477
Configuring a Static MAC Address....................................................................................................................... 478
Displaying the MAC Address Table....................................................................................................................... 478
MAC Learning Limit........................................................................................................................................................ 478
Setting the MAC Learning Limit............................................................................................................................ 479
mac learning-limit Dynamic..................................................................................................................................... 479
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky................................................................................................................ 479
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................................................ 479
mac learning-limit no-station-move......................................................................................................................480
Learning Limit Violation Actions............................................................................................................................ 480
Setting Station Move Violation Actions...............................................................................................................480
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations........................................................................481
Enabling port security...............................................................................................................................................481
NIC Teaming..................................................................................................................................................................... 481
Configure Redundant Pairs...........................................................................................................................................482
Far-End Failure Detection.............................................................................................................................................485
FEFD State Changes................................................................................................................................................486
Configuring FEFD......................................................................................................................................................486
Enabling FEFD on an Interface...............................................................................................................................487
Debugging FEFD........................................................................................................................................................488
Chapter 26: Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).................................................................... 490
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................490
Protocol Data Units.................................................................................................................................................. 490
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................. 492
Management TLVs....................................................................................................................................................492
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview............................................................................................................................... 493
TIA Organizationally Specific TLVs.......................................................................................................................494
Configure LLDP............................................................................................................................................................... 497
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Configurations......................................................................................... 498
Enabling LLDP..................................................................................................................................................................498
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