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Prosafe S3300 52X POE stacked : possible to LAG with 2 XS712T
Hello,
We have
- four (4) stacked S3300 52X POE+ - supporting our desktops and printers
- two (2) inner connected via LAG XS712T 10G switches, (since they can not be stacked) - supporting our Hyper-V Cluster and servers
We would like to direct connect the two(2) sets of switches (new LAG 2 below) - more for failover / redundancy rather than throughput
S3300 <---- new LAG 2 ------- XS712T <--+
S3300 | existing
S3300 | LAG 1
S3300 <---- new LAG 2 ------- XS712T <--+
Question
- can we create "LAG 2" between the S3300 stack and the 2 XS712T units ? Does the S3300 support LAG with 2 remote inner connected but not stacked Netgear switches ?
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,
bscaz
Hi BSCAZ,
So when setting up a LAG2 and LAG1 like this, would be creating an L2 loop into the network. Therefore, spanning tree is going to down one of the LAGs configured.
Now, if you are looking to have a redundant backup plan in case one path is down, then that is also an option but you must give spanning tree time to set the new forward state once the path is down.
Welcome to our community, I hope this answers your question.
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Hi BSCAZ,
So when setting up a LAG2 and LAG1 like this, would be creating an L2 loop into the network. Therefore, spanning tree is going to down one of the LAGs configured.
Now, if you are looking to have a redundant backup plan in case one path is down, then that is also an option but you must give spanning tree time to set the new forward state once the path is down.
Welcome to our community, I hope this answers your question.
Hello AlexPe,
Enabling and using MSTP was our original plan ... but thought we would check the community just in case there was something we were missing. We know there will be a 15 sec or so switch over ... which is what we have our arp cache timeout configured for on our network
Thanks again for your quick response,
bscaz
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