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    August 2005 Link Aggregation Interoperability of the Dell™ PowerConnect™ 5316M with Cisco IOS or Cisco CatOS based Switches By Bruce Holmes[...]

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    August 2005 Page 2 Dell Enterprise Product Group Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................... ............................. 3 Link Aggregation with Gigab it Ethernet Cisco Sw itches .................................................................. 5 Config[...]

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    August 2005 Page 3 Dell Enterprise Product Group Intr oduction The Dell PowerConnect 5316M is a fully managed Layer 2 swit ch that helps organizat ions reduce the price and cable sprawl tradition ally associated w i t h t h e n e t w o r k i n g o f s e r v e r s . T h i s r o b u s t networking switch is based on the same technology as the PowerCo[...]

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    August 2005 Page 4 Dell Enterprise Product Group Dell P owerCon nect Cisco IOS/Cat OS Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) EtherChannel Fast EtherChannel (FEC) Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) port-channel Channeling channel-group channel-group The primary purpose of LAGs is to increase the overall bandw idth between two switches. This is accomplished by effe [...]

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    August 2005 Page 5 Dell Enterprise Product Group If desired, any of the example configurations can b e performed on the Dell PowerConnect 5316M via the web based interface (WBI ) as well. Se e the Dell PowerConnect 5316M Ethe rnet Switch Module User ʹ s Guide for a description of t he Dell WBI. See the section “Definin g LAG Parameters” for in[...]

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    August 2005 Page 6 Dell Enterprise Product Group Configuring the P o werConnect 5316M e xter nal por ts for Dynamic Link Agg r e gation The following example shows the Dell PowerCo nnect 5316M Gigabit Ethernet switch command- line interface (CLI) commands for con figuring the six external po rts on the Gigabit Ethernet switch for LACP. 5316M(config[...]

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    August 2005 Page 7 Dell Enterprise Product Group Configuring a Cisco CatOS Gigabit Ether net Switch f or Dynamic Link Agg r e gation The following example shows the Cisco CatOS sw itch CLI commands for con figuring six ports for LACP. Cat_6509(enable) set channelprotocol lacp 2 Cat_6509(enable) set port lacp-channel 2/1-6 mode active The first comm[...]

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    August 2005 Page 8 Dell Enterprise Product Group Port-channel1 (Primary aggregator) Age of the Port-channel = 00d:01h:11m:34s Logical slot/port = 10/1 Number of ports = 6 HotStandBy port = null Port state = Port-channel Ag-Inuse Protocol = LACP Ports in the Port-channel: Index Load Port EC state No of bits ------+------+------+------------------+--[...]

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    August 2005 Page 9 Dell Enterprise Product Group The output of the command shows the ports 2/1 through 2/6 Status is ‘connected’ and a Channel mode of ‘active’ . This confirms th at there is physical link on all ports in the LAG and that the Cisco switch has communica ted with th e PowerConnect 5316M switch to successfully establish an aggr[...]

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    August 2005 Page 10 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cisco CatOS CLI allows th e configuration of static LAGs via the LACP or the PAgP CLI commands. Both commands are shown below. The following example shows the Cisco CatOS C LI LACP channelprotocol commands for configuring three ports o f the Cisco sw itch for st atic link aggr egation. Cat_6509(enab[...]

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    August 2005 Page 11 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cat_6509(enable) show running-config Link a gg r e gation with Cisco F ast Ether net Switches Some customers have an investment in a Cisco Fast E t h e r n e t ( 1 0 0 M b p s ) n e t w o r k . I n t h i s c a s e t h e customer may not want to incur the expense to repl ace their Cisc o Fast Etherne[...]

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    August 2005 Page 12 Dell Enterprise Product Group NOTE: This is different from the Cisco IOS and Ca tOS methods which would require that all the ports in the LAG be configured to 100 Mbps an d full duplex rather than setting the LAG to 100Mbps. C onfiguring all port s in a LAG to 100 Mbp s and full duplex on the Dell PowerConnect 5316M would have n[...]

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    August 2005 Page 13 Dell Enterprise Product Group CLI will prevent adding internal ports to a LAG To check the configuration of the ports on the Dell PowerConnect 5316 M use the ‘show running- config’ command and look at the “interface Ethernet gxx” configurations, where the “xx” indicates the port number. In the following example, the [...]

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    August 2005 Page 14 Dell Enterprise Product Group Cisco IOS based switches may h ave the ‘desirable’ and ‘passive’ mode options for the LAG setting. The PowerConnect 5316M does not support this im plementation. Do not use the ‘desirable’ or ‘passive’ modes when configurin g a LAG with a De ll PowerConnect swit ch. Only use the ‘ac[...]

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    August 2005 Page 15 Dell Enterprise Product Group 1 IOS: Switch Ports Model SW Version SW Ima ge * 1 28 WS-C3750G-24TS 12.2(18)SE1 C3750-I5-M 2 CatOS: WS-C6509 Software, Vers ion NmpSW: 7.6(10) Copyright (c) 1995-2004 by Cis co Systems NMP S/W compiled on Oct 27 2004, 17:59: 09 THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMAT IONAL PURPOSES O NLY, AND MAY CO NTAIN[...]