Re: [GROW] Handling of LAGs in Mitigating Negative Impact of Maintenance through BGP Session Culling

Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> Tue, 09 January 2018 11:35 UTC

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:35:07 +0000
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
To: Thomas King <thomas.king@de-cix.net>
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Subject: Re: [GROW] Handling of LAGs in Mitigating Negative Impact of Maintenance through BGP Session Culling
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Dear Thomas,

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:30:35AM +0000, Thomas King wrote:
> we at DE-CIX are currently implementing BGP Session Culling and we hit
> the question how to handle LAGs (e.g. LACP, Static configured). The
> Internet Draft is not covering this question yet, however, from our
> point of view it is worth discussing it.
> 
> Our suggestion for handling LAGs looks like this: Typically, a minimum
> number of port members can be defined for a LAG being up. The LAG is
> not touched by BGP Session Culling during a maintenance unless this
> number is undercut. If the number if undercut the LAG is handled by
> BGP Session Culling as defined in the Internet Draft.
> 
> If no value for the minimum number of active port members is defined
> for a LAG, the value 1 should be used as this is the behaviour of LAGs
> today already.

Is this in context of multi-chassis LAG?

Kind regards,

Job