MLAG-LACP

[cpacho]

Hello;

I have configured an MLAG between 2 X590 routers with a double LACP link between them. This is my configuration:
R1:
create vlan "MANAGE"
configure vlan MANAGE tag 1000
create vlan "MLAG_CORE"
configure vlan MLAG_CORE tag 250
configure ports 29 description-string "LINK_R-A52_Port_29_VRRP"
enable sharing 29 grouping 29.33 algorithm address-based L2 lacp
configure vlan MANAGE add ports 1-32,34-36 untagged
configure vlan MLAG_CORE add ports 29 tagged
configure vlan MANAGE ipaddress 10.1.0.251 255.255.0.0
enable ipforwarding vlan MANAGE
configure vlan MLAG_CORE ipaddress 10.250.0.1 255.255.255.252
create mlag peer "CORE"
configure mlag peer "CORE" ipaddress 10.250.0.2 vr VR-Default
configure mlag peer "CORE" lacp-mac 00:04:96:e5:17:94
enable mlag port 22 peer "CORE" id 1

R2:
create vlan "MANAGE"
configure vlan MANAGE tag 1000
create vlan "MLAG_CORE"
configure vlan MLAG_CORE tag 250
configure ports 29 description-string "LINK_R-A52_Port_29_VRRP"
enable sharing 29 grouping 29.33 algorithm address-based L2 lacp
configure vlan MANAGE add ports 1-32,34-36 untagged
configure vlan MLAG_CORE add ports 29 tagged
configure vlan MANAGE ipaddress 10.1.0.252 255.255.0.0
enable ipforwarding vlan MANAGE
configure vlan MLAG_CORE ipaddress 10.250.0.2 255.255.255.252
create mlag peer "CORE"
configure mlag peer "CORE" ipaddress 10.250.0.1 vr VR-Default
configure mlag peer "CORE" lacp-mac 00: 04: 96: e5: 17: 94
enable mlag port 22 peer "CORE" id 1

This is the command output (same on both routers)

R1#show mlag peer
Multi-switch Link Aggregation Peers:

MLAG Peer         : CORE
VLAN              : MLAG_CORE                 Virtual Router    : VR-Default
Local IP Address  : 10.250.0.2             Peer IP Address   : 10.250.0.1
MLAG ports        : 1                               Tx-Interval       : 1000 ms
Checkpoint Status : Up                        Peer Tx-Interval  : 1000 ms
Rx-Hellos         : 98878                          Tx-Hellos         : 98880
Rx-Checkpoint Msgs: 4943                 Tx-Checkpoint Msgs: 4872
Rx-Hello Errors   : 0                              Tx-Hello Errors   : 0
Hello Timeouts    : 0                            Checkpoint Errors : 0
Up Time           : 1d:2h:54m:59s          Peer Conn.Failures: 0
Local MAC         : 00:04:96:e5:17:94   Peer MAC          : 00:04:96:e5:17:22
Config'd LACP MAC : 00:04:96:e5:17:94      Current LACP MAC  : 00:04:96:e5:17:94
Authentication    : None

Alternate path information: None

R1#sh mlag ports

                Local                                                       Local   Remote
MLAG    Local   Link     Remote                           Peer    Fail    Fail
Id            Port    State    Link        Peer                 Status  Count   Count
================================================================================
1             22          A        Up         CORE                   Up          0       0
================================================================================
Local Link State: A - Active, D - Disabled, R - Ready, NP - Port not present
Remote Link     : Up - One or more links are active on the remote switch,
                  Down - No links are active on the remote switch,
                  N/A - The peer has not communicated link state for this MLAG port,
                  Virtual - MLAG peer switch does not have physical port.

Number of Multi-switch Link Aggregation Groups  : 1
Convergence control                             : Conserve Access Lists
Reload Delay Interval                           : 30 seconds
Reload Delay                                    : Disabled
Link Up Isolation                               : Off

This is the configuration of my switches stack
SW1-stack
configure snmp sysName "SW-A51"
configure snmp sysContact "https://www.extremenetworks.com/support/"
configure slot 1 module X450G2-48p-10G4
configure sys-recovery-level slot 1 reset
configure slot 2 module X450G2-48p-10G4
create vlan "MANAGE"
configure vlan MANAGE tag 1000
enable sharing 1:52 grouping 1: 52,2: 52 algorithm address-based L2 lacp
configure vlan MANAGE add ports 1: 1-52,2: 1-51 untagged
configure vlan MANAGE ipaddress 10.1.0.241 255.255.0.0
enable ipforwarding vlan MANAGE

Slot-1 SW-A51.2 # sh lacp

LACP Up                             : Yes
LACP Enabled                        : Yes
System MAC                          : 02:04:96:e3:eb:d8
LACP PDUs dropped on non-LACP ports : 0

Lag        Actor    Actor   Partner            Partner  Partner  Agg
           Sys-Pri  Key     MAC                Sys-Pri  Key      Count
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:52           0    0x041c  00:00:00:00:00:00      0    0x0000   0
================================================================================

* Slot-1 SW-A51.3 # sh lacp
  <cr>            Execute the command
  counters        Counters
  lag             LACP user defined LAG (link agg group)
  member-port     Member port of the LACP trunk
  |               Filter the output of the command

 sh lacp counters

LACP PDUs dropped on non-LACP ports : 0
LACP Bulk checkpointed msgs sent    : 1
LACP Bulk checkpointed msgs recv    : 0
LACP PDUs checkpointed sent         : 0
LACP PDUs checkpointed recv         : 0

Lag           Member     Rx       Rx Drop      Rx Drop       Rx Drop         Tx             Tx
Group      Port            Ok       PDU Err       Not Up        Same MAC    Sent Ok  Xmit Err
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:52       1:52               0             0                  0                     0                 3150          0
               2:52               0             0                 0                      0                2993          0

================================================================================

Slot-1 SW-A51.10 # sh lacp lag 1:52

Lag   Actor    Actor  Partner           Partner  Partner Agg   Actor
      Sys-Pri  Key    MAC               Sys-Pri  Key     Count MAC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:52        0  0x041c 00:00:00:00:00:00       0  0x0000      0 02:04:96:e3:eb:d8

Port list:

Member     Port      Rx               Sel               Mux               Actor       Partner
Port       Priority  State             Logic             State             Flags         Port
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:52       0         Defaulted    Unselected   Detached       A-G---F-        0
2:52       0         Defaulted    Unselected   Detached       A-G---F-        0
================================================================================
Actor Flags: A-Activity, T-Timeout, G-Aggregation, S-Synchronization
             C-Collecting, D-Distributing, F-Defaulted, E-Expired

the problem I have is that there is no ping response from the routers to the switch stack.

Can anybody help me??
Thanks

[cpacho]

indeed the problem was that the LACP had not been created in each port of both cores
Thank you.

[Stefan_K_]

Oh, Chris is right. Totally didn’t see that.

the command

show sharing

would have shown that. 

Please note that you can’t enable sharing for a port after it was configured for MLAG. So you have to disable mlag for this port, enable sharing and then enable mlag again.

[Chris_H · Accepted solution]

your edge-switch has LACP for the uplinks configured (1:52 and 2:52), but your core-switches don’t have LACP on the port 22 configured, which seems to be the MLAG port… that’s why the edge-switch shows no RX LACP frames, but only TX in your “show lacp counter” output and the aggregation doesn’t come up.. 

you need to “enable sharing 22 grouping 22 algorithm address-based l2 lacp” to enable LACP on port 22 on each of the cores and then add the port again to the VLAN..

[Miguel-Angel_RO]

cpacho,

Did you disabled the stpd on the MLAG ports?

disable stpd s0 ports 22
Stpd ahas also to be disabled on the uplink of the edge switch

Mig