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LAG Features
Hardware capabilities:
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The LAG load sharing is executed in hardware, which provides line rate forwarding for all
port types.
Software capabilities:
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The Alcatel-Lucent solution conforms to the IEEE LAG implementation including
dynamic costing and LAG port threshold features. The dynamic cost and LAG port
threshold features can be enabled even if the second node is not an Alcatel-Lucent router.
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Dynamic cost
Dynamic cost can be enabled with the
config>lag
dynamic-cost
command or by the
action specified in the
config>lag>port-threshold
command.
If dynamic cost is enabled and the number of active links is greater than the port
threshold value (0-7), then the path cost is dynamically calculated whenever there is a
change in the number of active links regardless of the specified port threshold action.
If the port-threshold is met and the action is set to dynamic cost, then the path cost is
dynamically recalculated regardless of the global dynamic cost configuration.
Enabling dynamic costing causes the physical link metrics used by OSPF to be
applied based on the operational or aggregate link bandwidth in the LAG that is
available at the time, providing the number of links that are up exceeds the configured
LAG port threshold value. If the number of available links falls below the configured
threshold, the configured threshold action determines if and at what cost this LAG
will be advertised.
For example, assume a single link in OSPF has an associated cost of 100 and the LAG
consists of four physical links. The cost associated with the logical link is 25. If one
link fails then the cost would automatically be adjusted to 33.
If dynamic cost is not configured then costing is applied based on the total number of
links configured. The cost would be calculated at 25. This will remain static provided
the number of links that are up exceeds the configured LAG threshold.
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LAG port threshold
The LAG port threshold feature allows configuration of the behavior, once the
number of available links in a LAG falls below or is equal to the specified threshold.
Two options are available:
1.
If the number of links available (up) in a LAG is less than the configured threshold, then
the LAG is regarded as operationally down.
For example, assume a LAG consists ofeight physical links. The threshold is set to four
and dynamic costing is not configured. If the operational links is equal to or drops below
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