Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) User Manual

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LAG formation rules

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The router can support up to 256 LAGs, and each LAG can contain up to 64 member ports.

If the router is configured to support 32 LAGs by using the system-max trunk-num
command, the maximum number of LAG ports is 64.

If the router is configured to support 64 LAGs by using the system-max trunk-num
command, the maximum number of LAG ports is 32.

If the system-max trunk-num is set to 256, the maximum number of LAG ports supported
is 8.

The default system-max trunk-num is set to 128, and each LAG can have up to 16 member
ports

For 40G and 100G ports, the number of LAG FIDs is 128. The configurable ranges are
from 2 to 64 LAGs.

When configuring a static or dynamic LAG, if trunk load sharing type is set to “per-packet” the
maximum number of “per-packet” trunks is set to 4.

Ports can be in only one LAG group. All the ports in a LAG group must be connected to the
same device at the other end. For example, if port 1/4 and 1/5 in Device 1 are in the same
LAG group, both ports must be connected to ports in Device 2 or in Device 3. You cannot have
one port connected to Device 2 and another port connected to Device 3.

All LAG member properties must match the primary port of the LAG with respect to the
following parameters:

Port tag type (untagged or tagged port)

Port speed and duplex

TOS-based Configuration – All ports in the LAG must have the same TOS-based QoS
configuration before LAG deployment, During deployment the configuration on the primary
port is replicated to all ports and on undeployment, each port inherits the same TOS-based
QoS configuration.

To change port parameters, you must change them on the primary port. The software
automatically applies the changes to the other ports in the LAG.

Using the system-max trunk-num num command, the device can support the following
LAG/member port configurations:

256 LAGs with each containing 8 member ports.

128 LAGs with each containing 16 member ports.

64 LAGs with each containing 32 member ports.

32 LAGs with each containing 64 member ports.

Using the system-max trunk-num-100g num command, the device can support the following
40 GbE and 100 GbE LAG scalability configurations.

64 LAGs with each containing 2 member ports.

32 LAGs with each containing 4 member ports.

16 LAGs with each containing 8 member ports.

8 LAGs with each containing 16 member ports.

4 LAGs with each containing 32 member ports.

2 LAGs with each containing 64 member ports.

The total number of ports in a trunk is controlled by the system-max trunk-num command for
both non-100G and 100G trunks.

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