Sorry guys, I am a consultant on another product that requires Link Aggregation. I do not know anything about setting up switches. I have already given this guide tot he Network admin and apparently there is still confusion. So, I need to ask some very specefic questions on the setup. Please bear with me:
1. enable Enables LACP globally - Does LACP have to be enabled globally? Will this have any effect on the other ports, or can you just turn LACP on at the required ports
2. On each specefic port you must click AdminEnable?
3. Will the Open Enable setting be set from the global attributes?
4. Do you have to set a key? Is this just an arbitrary number betwee 1 and 32? Do you use the same key on all the ports you want to aggregate (in my case three ports?)
5. Aggregation true/false I assume you set to true on each of the three ports
6. Do I just pick one of the three interface cards and set that port to active and the other two to passive?
7. The partner settings confuse me. What is the partner key? Do you only set the "key" value on active node and list this number under the partner-key value for the other two ports?
8. Same question for partner port...do you take the active port and put that port number under the partner port of the other two passive ports?
9. Do you need the partner-port-priority? How do you determine what to put in here?
10. Completely lost on how you get a hex value for the partner-state? Is this value necessary and where does it come from?
11. For the partner-system-id do you just take the mac address from the interface card on the active node and put that value here? if so, should the active node then be blank?
12. Partner-system-priority - is this necessary, where do you determine the value?
13. port-priority - same question, looks like there is a default value for this one I can leave set.
14. Do you need to set a system-priority? If so, what determines the value?
15. Log or short timeout (this is for a backup application)
Ok...that's it. Sorry, but the guide assumes you know something about Link Aggregation and about the network switch. I know neither, I just know I need it for my app to run. I really appreciate the help!
Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation
Rochester, NY