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    Verifying That LACP Is Configured Correctly and Bundle Members Are Exchanging LACP Protocol Packets

    Verify that LACP has been set up correctly and that the bundle members are transmitting LACP protocol packets.

    1. Verifying the LACP Setup
    2. Verifying That LACP Packets Are Being Exchanged

    Verifying the LACP Setup

    Purpose

    Verify that the LACP has been set up correctly.

    Action

    TO verify that LACP has been enabled as active on one end:

    user@switch>show lacp interfaces xe-0/1/0
    Aggregated interface: ae0
    
        LACP state:       Role   Exp   Def  Dist  Col  Syn  Aggr  Timeout  Activity
    
          xe-0/1/0      Actor    No   Yes    No   No   No   Yes     Fast    Active
    
          xe-0/1/0    Partner    No   Yes    No   No   No   Yes     Fast   Passive
    
        LACP protocol:   Receive State    Transmit State           Mux State
    
          xe-0/1/0          Defaulted     Fast periodic            Detached
    
     
    
    

    Meaning

    This example shows that LACP has been configured with one side as active and the other as passive. When LACP is enabled, one side must be set as active in order for the bundled link to be up.

    Verifying That LACP Packets Are Being Exchanged

    Purpose

    Verify that LACP packets are being exchanged between interfaces.

    Action

    Use the show interfaces aex statistics command to display LACP BPDU exchange information.

    show interfaces ae0 statistics
    Physical interface: ae0, Enabled, Physical link is Down
      Interface index: 153, SNMP ifIndex: 30
      Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Speed: Unspecified, Loopback: Disabled,
      Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Disabled, Minimum links needed: 1,
      Minimum bandwidth needed: 0
      Device flags   : Present Running
      Interface flags: Hardware-Down SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x0
      Current address: 02:19:e2:50:45:e0, Hardware address: 02:19:e2:50:45:e0
      Last flapped   : Never
      Statistics last cleared: Never
        Input packets : 0
        Output packets: 0
      Input errors: 0, Output errors: 0
    
      Logical interface ae0.0 (Index 71) (SNMP ifIndex 34)
        Flags: Hardware-Down Device-Down SNMP-Traps Encapsulation: ENET2
        Statistics        Packets        pps         Bytes          bps
        Bundle:
            Input :             0          0             0            0
            Output:             0          0             0            0
        Protocol inet,
          Flags: None
          Addresses, Flags: Dest-route-down Is-Preferred Is-Primary
            Destination: 10.10.10/24, Local: 10.10.10.1, Broadcast: 10.10.10.255
    
    

    Meaning

    The output here shows that the link is down and that no PDUs are being exchanged (when there is no other traffic flowing on the link).

    Published: 2012-12-07