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esconceptsz
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Jun 09, 2016
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R8500 LACP with HP 1810 Switches

I'm a bit disappointed I haven't been able to get LACP/port aggregation working on the X8. It’s one of the main reasons I purchased it. I have two HP 1810 managed switches (8 port and 24 port) and it...
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    esconceptsz
    Jun 12, 2016

    I ended up getting it working with an HP 1820-24G-PoE+ switch. It only took about 2 minutes; I set up LAG on the switch and plugged in the R8500 and it just worked.

     

    I think there are probably incompatability issues with the HP 1810s. I have an HP 1810-24Gv2 and HP 1810-8Gv2 and the behavior was the same on both. Broadcast storm (lights on all my switches going nuts), network down. I enabled loop protection on both switches and I was able to get LAG running but it was very unstable. And I had to do some sequence of boot the switch then the router with one port, add the second port, get a broadcast storm, wait for the ports to become unblocked (180 seconds from the loop protection), and LAG sort of worked. But it would only work for a couple minutes, and then I'd get another broadcast storm, loop protection would kick in, after that I'd have another couple minutes of it working.

     

    Because it works fine with my HP 1820 I just stopped messing with it on the HP 1810s.