S8000 Link Aggregation with R8500

[Goenham205]

I'm curious if anyone has gotten the S8000 to work with their R8500 in Link Aggregation mode? If so, I need some help getting this to work. Every time I assign say Ports 3/4 on switch for aggregation and then enable Link Aggregation on R8500 and then plug in ethernet wires, the blue lights start to blink on ports 3/4 and it basically shuts my network down except WiFi. Once I unplug one of the ports, everything goes back to normal. Is it because of the LACP-IEEE 802.3ad? So, I could only really use the R8500 with a supported NAS device with Link Aggregation capability? Just want to make sure I'm understanding and following my assumption.

[ElaineP]

Hi Goenham205,

R8500 support LACP mode, but S8000 only support Static Link Aggregation, which does not support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

So you cannot use link Aggregation mode between R8500 and S8000, will make a loop. But you can use R8500 work with a supported NAS device.

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NETGEAR Employee.

[schumaku]

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@ElainePwrote:

 R8500 support LACP mode, but S8000 only support Static Link Aggregation, which does not support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). So you cannot use link Aggregation mode between R8500 and S8000, will make a loop.

Seriously?   During the S8000 Beta it was promised the routers supporting Link Aggregation (R7900P, R8000P, R8300, R8500, R8900, and R9000) will be enhanced adding a Static LAG config. Considering all these routers make use of the Linux Bonding Driver (unless I'm really wrong) this would be a snap.

Why ever, it happened on the R9000 (and most likely also on it's little brother R8900) a long time ago already - here we have a choice.

Sorry @ElaineP - this answer can't be accepted as a solution. It's ridiculous - is this router team sleeping or is there no manager which can be fired for not doing their job?