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ShaileshMdr
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LACP confusion

Hi Community,

 

So I have a question whether this LACP will work or not. I need your views on this also is there any other way on how I can improve this redundancy.

 

I have 2 Cisco Switches (Stacked) acting as a link switch.

FGT is in HA (Active and Passive).

Here there are 4 ports that are members of a single port-channel in Cisco switch.

And whereas in FortiGate there are 2 ports each in LACP.

Will it work?

 

Regards,

Shailesh

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srajeswaran
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The LACP link will be up, but there will be traffic issues. For example the switch can forward the traffic to passive node as part of load balancing , but passive node will drop the packets.

We can use "set lacp-ha-slave disable" on FGT, and make the LACP down on passive node, but this will influence the failover time and can cause traffic disruption.

Ideal would be to use 2 separate port channels on switch and fortigate nodes.

 

Ref: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-LACP-behavior-in-an-HA-cluster/ta-p/195163

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Suraj
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srajeswaran
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The LACP link will be up, but there will be traffic issues. For example the switch can forward the traffic to passive node as part of load balancing , but passive node will drop the packets.

We can use "set lacp-ha-slave disable" on FGT, and make the LACP down on passive node, but this will influence the failover time and can cause traffic disruption.

Ideal would be to use 2 separate port channels on switch and fortigate nodes.

 

Ref: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-LACP-behavior-in-an-HA-cluster/ta-p/195163

Regards,
Suraj
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ShaileshMdr

Ahh okay!

So I should be using 2 port-channels.

Example: In port-channel 1 both links for active FGT while port-channel 2 both links to slave FGT.

 

Regards,

Shailesh

 

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srajeswaran

Hi@ShaileshMdr ,  that is correct.

Regards,
Suraj
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ShaileshMdr

Hello @srajeswaran 

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Appreciate it!

 

Regards,

Shailesh

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