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On 10/30/12 11:23, Tom Judge wrote:
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> I am trying to get if_lagg working in an HP blade for failover between
> the 2 in chassis cisco switches, but it would seem that the link state
> is not being propagated up to the lagg device.
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> Any hints/ideas?
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>
> dmesg:
> bxe1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10GbE (A0) BXE v:1.5.52
> bxe1: Ethernet address: 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4
> bxe1: ASIC (0x16500000); Rev (A0); Bus (PCIe x4, 5Gbps); Flags
> (MSI-X); Queues (RSS:16); BD's (RX:510,TX:255); Firmware (5.2.13);
> Bootcode (4.8.0)
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> bxe1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
> mtu 1500
> options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
> 	ether 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4
> 	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
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> lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
> mtu 1500
> options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
> 	ether 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4
> 	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect
> 	status: no carrier
> 	laggproto failover
> 	laggport: bxe1 flags=1<MASTER>

Do you need two physical interfaces configured for failover mode to do 
any good?