MLAG-LACP
Beginning in EXOS 15.3, the EXOS MLAG feature supports Link Aggregation
Control Protocol (LACP) over MLAG ports. To do this, all MLAG peer switches use a common MAC
in the System Identifier portion of the LACPDU transmitted over the MLAG ports. The following
options and requirements are provided:
- The MLAG peer that has the highest IP address for the ISC control
VLAN is considered the MLAG LACP master. The switch MAC of the MLAG LACP master is used as
the System Identifier by all the MLAG peer switches in the LACPDUs transmitted over the
MLAG ports. This is the default option.
- You can configure a common unicast MAC address for use on all the
MLAG peer switches. This MAC address is used as the System Identifier by all the MLAG peer
switches in the LACPDUs transmitted over the MLAG ports. This configuration is not
checkpointed to the MLAG peers, and you must make sure that the same MAC address is
configured on all the MLAG switches. Additionally, you must ensure that this address does
not conflict with the switch MAC of the server node that teams with the MLAG peer
switches.

Note
When LACP shared ports are configured as MLAG ports, a LAG ID
change after MLAG peer reboot may result in MLAG ports being removed and re-added to the
aggregator. To avoid the MLAG port flap, it is recommended to configure a common LACP MAC in
both the MLAG peers using the
configure mlag peer peer_name lacp-mac
lacp_mac_address command.