Showing posts with label lacp cisco extreme switch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lacp cisco extreme switch. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Trunking an Extreme 450a to a Cisco 3750 via LACP

I've seen several attempts of this elsewhere on the 'net but most had a few errors that caused issues. Here's the approach that worked for me:

Extreme side: Assuming ports being assigned are not untagged on any VLANs or in use by anything else

Assuming port 5,6,7,8:

Enable sharing 5 grouping 5,6,7,8 lacp

Add to VLANS we need to route:

configure VLANname1 add ports 5 tagged
configure VLANname2 add ports 5 tagged

Cisco commands:

Assuming 2x core switches chained, ports 37 and 38 each. 

interface range g1/0/37-38,g2/0/37-38
description temp connection to extreme core
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 48 mode active

interface port-channel48
description temp connection to extreme core
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk

3/22/12 update: We've finally retired the old Extreme switches. I am happy to say that this LACP trunk config performed perfectly for nearly 5 months to tie a new Cisco infrastructure to an old Extreme one.