[ovs-discuss] LACP timeout state flag?

Jay Vosburgh jay.vosburgh at canonical.com
Tue Feb 14 18:44:27 UTC 2017


O'Reilly, Darragh <darragh.oreilly at hpe.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a LACP bond with lacp-time=fast and the physical switch ports the same.
>Things seems to be working okay (1 PDU /sec etc), but there is a concern about the timeout flag.
>
># ovs-appctl lacp/show | egrep state
>        actor state: activity timeout aggregation synchronized collecting distributing
>        partner state: activity timeout aggregation synchronized collecting distributing
>        actor state: activity timeout aggregation synchronized collecting distributing
>        partner state: activity timeout aggregation synchronized collecting distributing
>
>What does the timeout flag mean? It does not show if slow is used instead of fast.
>I believe it means that "fast" is enabled on the slave - is that correct?

	Yes.  This nomenclature ultimately comes from the IEEE 802.1AX
standard, section 5.4.2.2.  Within the LACPDU structure, the
LACP_Timeout bit is 1 if short timeout (1 second) is set, and the bit is
0 if long timeout (30 seconds) is set.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh at canonical.com


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