Busy, busy, busy
I’m loaded up pretty heavily on classes this semester. I’m trying to finish up my BS in IS Management. The workload as I get into 400 level classes has increased significantly. I have a number of projects that have fallen to the side including:
Learn and understand nRF24l01 radios for Arduino to RPi communication.
Cobra electrical system (This hurts the most, perhaps. I got the dash “in” but still have some loose ends to tie up before calling the electric done)
Better understand AWS topologies. Related, set up a Puppet server in house and connect it to the XenServer I’ve stood up. XenServer 6.2 is open source now! I’d also like to replace VMWare with XenServer and be able to do live migrations in house. I was having trouble with the Mythbuntu ISO booting properly but it looks like it might just be the distro.
Continue to get away from SageTV. It still runs. I’m waiting for the day where that’s not the case. I think I need to go towards MythTV. There just isn’t a good alternative.
Around December I need to make a run at the CCDP. I need to renew the CCNP and only need one test for the CCDP. Might as well add to the acronyms.
Anyway, enough of my sob story.
Cisco and Extreme interoperability – Part 2 – LACP
Wow…4+ years later and I’m finally posting part 2. Yep, the original config didn’t work quite right but I did get it working. Here’s the result:
On the Cisco switch:
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no ip address
switchport
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
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interface GigabitEthernet8/5
no ip address
switchport
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 98 mode on
etc...
On the Extreme switch:
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configure vlan "out_of_band" ipaddress 172.16.0.254 255.255.254.0
configure vlan "out_of_band" add port 7:1 untagged
configure vlan "out_of_band" add port 1:1 tagged
out_of_band was used for testing. I put a PC on port 7:1 on the Extreme switch to make sure I could get to a PC on the Cisco switch.
Turns out I did full documentation on the test process and actually kept the doc! I was amazed! My notes suggest the only delay was when re-connecting ports that are part of the group they would not start forwarding for about 3 seconds. Otherwise it worked great!