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M7300/M4300, and all netgear managed switches, apparently do not support LACP fallback mode
We have both M4300 and M7300 10GbE switches from Netgear in our environment. It does not appear that any netgear switches support LACP fallback mode. We already checked with support and tried the latest firmware. In other words, LACP is either enabled or disabled. There is no way to have it enabled, but to automatically fall back to disabled, when appropriate. This creates significant issues in our environment, and for many others, as any kind of re-imaging of a server using PXE will fail. There is no way to have PXE enable LACP, so as soon as the server reboots and goes into PXE, we lose connectivity. Even outside of PXE, if you take a typical ESXi server that has LACP turned on and then try to reinstall ESXi off a ISO image, you cannot configure LACP during the install, so the 10GbE ports will have no connectivity. Cisco, Arista and every other switch vendor we have seen has some kind of setting to turn on LACP fallback mode. On catalyst it is turned on by default. On nexus it is enabled with "lacp suspend-individual", etc., etc. It would be great to get some feedback from Netgear product management on this topic, as this greatly limits how we can adopt this switch in enterprise deployments. Thanks, FYI, I am waiting for a response before I post this on other forums and product reviews to make sure this is not a mistake or some kind of hidden feature that I could not find.Solved4KViews0likes11Comments