topic Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600 in ExtremeSwitching (VSP/Fabric Engine)

Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

Erhan_YILDIZ1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Hello All,

interface gigabitethernet 1/1
lacp aggregation enable
lacp enable
lacp key 10
lacp mode passive

interface gigabitethernet 1/2
lacp aggregation enable
lacp enable
lacp key 10
lacp mode passive

I think I done the lacp config, but I need to add vlan on this.
When I do the below,

"vlan members add 3 1/"

I am having the error

"other ports are using the same key. Can not change port vlan membership"

Thanks,
Best Regards

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

Martin_Sebek — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 00:31:00 GMT

Try disabling lacp on the interfaces first, then add ports to the vlan and enable lacp again.

interface gig 1/1,1/2 no lacp enable
exit
vlan members add 3 1/1,1/2
interface gig 1/1,1/2
lacp enable
exit

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

Jongseok_Won — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:37:00 GMT

Try below command.

1.To add a VLAN to an active LACP-enabled MLT:
mlt vlan
vlan mlt

2.To remove a VLAN from an active LACP-enabled MLT:
no mlt vlan

3.Adding or removing individual ports from a VLAN is not allowed when these ports are members of an active LACP-enabled MLT unless LACP is disabled first.

4.Example

BEB-40:1(config)#show vlan members

====================================================================================================
Vlan Port
====================================================================================================
VLAN PORT ACTIVE STATIC NOT_ALLOW
ID MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1

10 1/1 1/1

12 1/7 1/7

30 1/4 1/4

31

BEB-40:1(config)#show mlt

====================================================================================================
Mlt Info
====================================================================================================
PORT MLT MLT PORT VLAN
MLTID IFINDEX NAME TYPE ADMIN CURRENT MEMBERS IDS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 6144 MLT-1 trunk norm norm 1/4 30

All 1 out of 1 Total Num of mlt displayed

DESIGNATED LACP LACP
MLTID IFINDEX PORTS ADMIN OPER
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 6144 1/4 enable up

All 1 out of 1 Total Num of mlt displayed

WHICH PORTS
WHERE LOCAL REMOTE PROGRAMMED
MLTID NAME CREATED PORT MEMBERS PORT MEMBERS IN DATA PATH
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 MLT-1 LOCAL 1/4 LOCAL

BEB-40:1(config)#mlt 1 vlan 31

BEB-40:1(config)#show mlt

====================================================================================================
Mlt Info
====================================================================================================
PORT MLT MLT PORT VLAN
MLTID IFINDEX NAME TYPE ADMIN CURRENT MEMBERS IDS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 6144 MLT-1 trunk norm norm 1/4 30 31

All 1 out of 1 Total Num of mlt displayed

DESIGNATED LACP LACP
MLTID IFINDEX PORTS ADMIN OPER
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 6144 1/4 enable up

All 1 out of 1 Total Num of mlt displayed

WHICH PORTS
WHERE LOCAL REMOTE PROGRAMMED
MLTID NAME CREATED PORT MEMBERS PORT MEMBERS IN DATA PATH
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 MLT-1 LOCAL 1/4 LOCAL

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

Martin_Sebek — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:59:00 GMT

Copy and paste from the VSP documentation.

When you add a VLAN to a dynamic MLT, only the active ports of the MLT are added as port members of the VLAN. Ports configured with the same aggregation key, but not active, are not added to the VLAN. If these inactive ports become active later, the system does not automatically add them to the VLAN port member list.You must add all inactive ports to the VLAN. If you do not add the inactive ports to the VLAN, when they become active later, hashing can result in choosing a newly active port for traffic forwarding. Because the port is not a port member of the VLAN, traffic will be dropped. When you add the VLAN to the MLT, also add the inactive aggregation ports to the VLAN. You may need to disable LACP on the inactive ports before you can add them to the VLAN. Because the ports are inactive, disabling LACP does not cause a traffic interruption.

So in case of dynamic MLT the prefered way is to add vlan on individual ports. And while doing this LACP cannot be enabled on those ports. That's why I recommended disabling lacp, add ports to the vlan and enable lacp again. From the question it is not clear if all ports are active members or not.

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

IgorN — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:42:42 GMT

Hi all, I have a similar task, 2x VSP7200 stacked switches are connected with 4x10G ports in a LAG to a Cisco VHS cluster, at Cisco end it is a single PortChannel. Now we need to add new VLANs to this LAG and for that we have to disable and re-enable LACP on both VSP switches. Is this service-affecting? Obviously it will happen out of hours, but if it is affecting then the change window and amount of regression testing on the apps side, and overall perceived risk will be much larger.
Thanks!

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

Ludovico_Steven — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:42:17 GMT

Gents

VSP LACP was changed a while back (VSP9000 rel 3.2.0.0 for the record; all modern VSPs descend from that) to allow dynamically adding or deleting of VLANs on LAG ports (without having to disable LACP on the ports). For this to work, the LAG ports must already be aggregated and active members of the MLT id configured for the same LACP key.

You then use either of these commands:

[no] vlan mlt <vlan-id> <mlt-id>
[no] mlt <mlt-id> vlan <vlan-list>
vlan members add|remove <vlan-id> <port-list>

The 1st two commands are preferred; if using the latter you need to make sure all ports in the MLT are specified.

The issue of having to disable LACP on the port is only if some of the ports are NOT active members of the MLT and you have configured them with the same key. Now in this case, the third and last command listed above will give an error. But the 1st two commands remain operational (without needing to disable LACP on the ports).

Re: Tagging Vlan on LACP on VSP8600

IgorN — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:24:29 GMT

Thanks Ludovico, this may help for the similar changes in the future