should if_lagg balance outbound traffic on an lacp connection ?

[Pete French]

> bce1 is a concern here as it is not in the ACTIVE state. On your switch
> have a look at the lacp stats, here is an example from mine with a 4
> port aggregation.

I have to admit that I did not setup the switch and have never looked into
this part of the network before. So it's been 24 hours of 'teach yourself
cisco'. But whilst researching the lagg stuff on the net I came across
an OpenBSD thread which says that you can only use lagg's LACP implementation
to aggregate ports connected to the same physical switch. In this case the
networking company who installed the switches have installed a pair, and
each machine has one port connected to each switch. The pair of switches
is allegedly configured to act as a single switch, so I should
just be able to aggregate ports between them. Indeed we have one solitary
windows box connected the same whayy which does this quite happily. But I
do not know if this is possible under FreeBSD

> c2950#sh lacp neighbor 
....
> Port      Flags   State     Priority      Key       Key     Number   State
> Fa0/11    SA      bndl      32768         0x1       0x1     0xB      0x3D  
>
> As you can see all ports are in 'bndl' state which means they have been negoiated.

O.K., trying this on each switch I get the following:

Port      Flags   Priority  Dev ID         Age     Key     Number   State
Gi0/2     SA      32768     0019.bb24.0422  25s    0x90    0x1      0x3D  

and

Port      Flags   Priority  Dev ID         Age     Key     Number   State
Gi0/2     SA      32768     0019.bb24.0422  23s    0x90    0x2      0x3D  

So I dont have your first 'State' column in the output! But I do have the
final one (is the first one simply an english readable alterantive to
the hex?). So my ports are in 0x3D as are yours.

> And all ports here are ACTIVE. I have been meaning to add IOCTLS to
> display more lacp stats to help debug this sort of thing.

I still only have one ACTIVE port. I am going to try using 'failover'
mode on lagg instead, but it is a shame :-( Do you think this has anything
to do with this being two switches ?

Thanks for the help,

-pcf.