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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

Supported Platforms

Published: 2012-12-07