[OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

[Doug Hughes]

We have lacp working between force10, hp, and cisco switches in all possible combinations with no difficulties. We do monitor and alert on excessive errors and drops for interfaces, but lacp isnt a culprit. If anything, it's an underlying interface when we find them. Also, it beats the heck out of spanning tree and is 2 orders of magnitude simpler than ospf, and 1 order simpler and more portable than ecmp. I am quite surprised by your observations.

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From: "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" <openindiana at nedharvey.com>
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> From: James Relph [mailto:james at themacplace.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:47 PM
> 
> No, we're not getting any ping loss, that's the thing.  The network looks
> entirely faultless.  We've run pings for 24 hours with no ping loss.

Yeah, I swore you said you had ping loss before - but if not - I don't think ping alone is sufficient.  You have to find the error counters on the LACP interfaces.  Everybody everywhere seems to blindly assume LACP works reliably, but to me, simply saying the term "LACP" is a red flag.  It's extremely temperamental, and the resultant behavior is exactly as you've described.

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