Juniper & Foundry Link Aggregation

802.3ad Link Aggregation between Juniper M10i and Foundry BigIron RX

There has been a few people posting questions about this so as i did this quickly in december for a project where we needed more than 1GB of bandwidth.



Juniper M10i



Below is the config and cli commands running Software Version 8.5R2

Config


ge-1/0/0 {
    description “1GB to Port 3/7″;
    gigether-options {
        802.3ad ae0;
         }
}

ge-1/1/0 {
    description “1GB to Port 2/7″;
    gigether-options {
        802.3ad ae0;
    }
}

 
ae0 {
    description “2GB Trunk”;
    vlan-tagging;
    mtu 9192;
    aggregated-ether-options {
        lacp {
            active;
        }
    }

CLI

show interfaces ae0

Physical interface: ae0, Enabled, Physical link is Up
  Interface index: 128, SNMP ifIndex: 34
  Description:  lon3 hnl Context
  Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 9192, Speed: 2000mbps, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Disabled,
  Minimum links needed: 1, Minimum bandwidth needed: 0
  Device flags   : Present Running
 


Foundry RX



Below is the config and cli commands running Software Version 2.4

Config


interface ethernet 3/7
 link-aggregate passive

interface ethernet 2/7
 link-aggregate passive


Config



show link-aggregate
Long  timeout: 90, default: 90
Short timeout: 3, default: 3

Port  [Sys P] [Port P] [ Key ] [Act][Tio][Agg][Syn][Col][Dis][Def][Exp][Ope]
2/7        1        1       2   No    L   Agg  Syn  Col  Dis  No   No   Ope
3/7        1        1       2   No    L   Agg  Syn  Col  Dis  No   No   Ope