Cisco Small Business (SG500) Link Aggregation (LAG) With LACP
KB ID 0001277 Problem At work a client was having trouble with a NAS Drive (Buffalo Terastation). It was being used as a backup target and some of the servers were dropping connections. I knew the client had some Catalist 3750’s So I suggested going and creating an Ether Channel to the two NICs in the NAS box, to try and cure the problem. However when I went onsite, I noticed the 3750 didn’t have any spare Gigabit ports...
HP Networking ‘ProCurve’ – Trunking / Aggregating Ports
KB ID 0000638 Problem I was lending a hand this week, while my colleague swapped out a lot of switches. I don’t usually deploy a large number of HP switches, so I was surprised when we installed a chassis switch and after patching the fiber links, the Cisco Catalyst switches all got upset and we lost three out of four ping packets. I (wrongly) assumed that STP would be enabled, so I wandered back and pulled the second fiber...