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Ajmal_2608
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Mar 02, 2013

Etherchannel with Nexus vpc, suggestions ?

Looking for best practices for configuring etherchannel/portchannle on a pair of 3900 (10.2, to be upgraded to 11.3 afterwards), these will connect to a Nexus 2248 (N5K core) vpc.

 

Suggestions please.

 

 

Also I would appreciate if someone can put their lab/configuration snippet so I can pick the usable ones (I don't have GUI access to the boxes only console)

 

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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Mar 03, 2013
    Works fine. The only diff between a normal channel and vpc (If we ignore the base vpc cnfig, peer links etc of the nexus) is the extra vlc vpcnum statement in the port-channel itself. I have 20Gbps (2x 10Gbps) vpc's to my viprions (n7010 cores). I do have a couple of 1600's on a VPC to 2248's with 7010 core as well though.

     

     

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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Mar 03, 2013
    Oh... You can't do routing protocols over vPC's... It's not supported (And worst case can have nasty effects like crashing your nexus).

     

     

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  • Ajmal_2608's avatar
    Ajmal_2608
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    Mar 03, 2013

    Thanks Hamish

     

     

    At this point we are not going to run any routing protocols, so I thing we should be good.

     

    Could you please suggest any configuration guideline for this ?

     

  • Ajmal_2608's avatar
    Ajmal_2608
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    Mar 10, 2013

     

    This worked for me

     

     

    trunk PO1 {

     

    interfaces 1.1

     

    interfaces 1.2

     

    }

     

     

    vlan external {

     

    tag 10

     

    trunks PO1

     

    }