Reference Guide

31 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)............................................... 535
Introduction to Dynamic LAGs and LACP........................................................................................535
Important Points to Remember..................................................................................................535
LACP Modes................................................................................................................................ 536
Configuring LACP Commands................................................................................................... 536
LACP Configuration Tasks................................................................................................................ 537
Creating a LAG.............................................................................................................................537
Configuring the LAG Interfaces as Dynamic..............................................................................537
Setting the LACP Long Timeout.................................................................................................538
Monitoring and Debugging LACP.............................................................................................. 539
Shared LAG State Tracking............................................................................................................... 539
Configuring Shared LAG State Tracking.................................................................................... 540
Important Points about Shared LAG State Tracking.................................................................. 541
LACP Basic Configuration Example................................................................................................. 542
Configure a LAG on ALPHA........................................................................................................ 542
32 Layer 2.............................................................................................................. 550
Manage the MAC Address Table...................................................................................................... 550
Clearing the MAC Address Table................................................................................................550
Setting the Aging Time for Dynamic Entries..............................................................................550
Configuring a Static MAC Address..............................................................................................551
Displaying the MAC Address Table............................................................................................. 551
MAC Learning Limit........................................................................................................................... 551
mac learning-limit Dynamic.......................................................................................................552
mac learning-limit mac-address-sticky.....................................................................................552
mac learning-limit station-move............................................................................................... 552
Learning Limit Violation Actions.................................................................................................552
Setting Station Move Violation Actions...................................................................................... 553
Recovering from Learning Limit and Station Move Violations..................................................553
NIC Teaming..................................................................................................................................... 554
Configure Redundant Pairs...............................................................................................................555
Important Points about Configuring Redundant Pairs.............................................................. 557
Far-End Failure Detection................................................................................................................ 558
FEFD State Changes....................................................................................................................559
Configuring FEFD........................................................................................................................560
Enabling FEFD on an Interface....................................................................................................561
Debugging FEFD......................................................................................................................... 562
33 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)........................................................564
802.1AB (LLDP) Overview.................................................................................................................564
Protocol Data Units.....................................................................................................................564