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Requirements for a MAD switch

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  • 1.  Requirements for a MAD switch

    Posted Mar 20, 2017 06:22 PM

    Hi All,

    I have been reading VSF documentation for 5412R switches. It says to avoid split fabric issues in case VSF link goes down, it is recommended to have a third MAD switch and enable Multi Active Detection (MAD) on theVSF fabric.

     

    My question is does MAD switch needs to be an Aruba/HPE switch or it can be any switch that supports LACP/LLDP?



  • 2.  RE: Requirements for a MAD switch
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    Posted Mar 21, 2017 08:48 AM

    For LLDP-MAD the following must be supported by the neighbor switch:

    - IP-address reachable from VSF
    - LLDP
    - SNMPv2
    - LACP

     

    VSF system performs a number of checks to verify if all requirements have been met. You can verfify with "show vsf lldp-mad parameters" the "MAD readiness status".


    => therefore there is no need for an Aruba/HPE switch if the above is supported.



  • 3.  RE: Requirements for a MAD switch

    Posted Mar 21, 2017 06:12 PM

    Thanks. Also found it in the documentation later on.