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Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!

Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!

Hi! this would be of help. A question with regard to your sentence "I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.": what's the VLAN membership status of both the trk6 logical interface (Aruba 2930M side) and channel-group 10 logical interface (Cisco 3850 side)? do they match? what's about show lacp on Aruba side? does it show you that 1/A1 and 2/A1 (thus you're dealing with a Aruba 2930M backplane stack, isn't it?) are well forming the Trk6 and all is perfectly matched with the Cisco peer's ports?

Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!

Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!

Your lacp configuration is correct. 
On the Cisco, you have to do a "no shut" to turn on the channel-group. 
If it is still not working, you can consider do the static port aggregation 
Aruba:  trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 trunk
Cisco: interface Port-channel10
          interface channel-group 10 mode on

Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!

Thanks for your reply.

Can I configure the following :
 interface Port-channel10
  interface gi1/0/1
  channel-group 10 mode on

On Aruba : 
trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

Original Message:
Sent: May 05, 2023 08:11 PM
From: desong1011
Subject: Creating LACP LAG & Static routes

Your lacp configuration is correct. 
On the Cisco, you have to do a "no shut" to turn on the channel-group. 
If it is still not working, you can consider do the static port aggregation 
Aruba:  trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 trunk
Cisco: interface Port-channel10
          interface channel-group 10 mode on

Original Message:
Sent: May 05, 2023 12:41 PM
From: ask74
Subject: Creating LACP LAG & Static routes

Hello there,

I've got two questions and I'll really appreciate some help and guidance.

First, we would like to configure a LAG/port-channel between Aruba 2930M and Cisco 3850 switches, as follows :

On Aruba :
 trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp

On Cisco :

interface port-channel10
switchport mode trunk

interface gi1/10/1
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

interface gi1/10/2
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 10 mode active 

I've noticed that once I added mode "active" to the physical interface I lose the connectivity to the Aruba switch.

Does this command "trunk 1/A1,2/A1 trk6 lacp"  on Aruba switch mean LACP is in active mode ? if not, how can I make it active to match what's configured on Cisco switch?

Secondly, the default route (0.0.0.0/0) on Aruba 2930M switch is pointing to the next-hop which is our VPLS provider currently, now we're installing a firewall and we would like to use it as the primary gateway and VPLS as backup if the link to the firewall ever dropped/disconnected.

So, I'm about to do the following :

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <firewall LAN IP> distance 1

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 <VPLS  IP> distance 10

so, when I do show ip route , I only can see the default route is pointing to the firewall IP only ? is that expected ?
  

Thanks!