Chassis Distribution Switch - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.4 - FOR EX REV 1 Manual

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Two EX4200-24F switches
Four XFP uplink modules
Before you configure the LAGs, be sure you have:
Configured the Virtual Chassis switches. See "Example: Configuring an EX4200 Virtual
Chassis with a Master and Backup in a Single Wiring Closet" on page 917.
Configured the uplink ports on the switches as trunk ports. See "Configuring Gigabit
Ethernet Interfaces (CLI Procedure)" on page 1284.
For maximum speed and resiliency, you can combine uplinks between an access switch
and a distribution switch into LAGs. Using LAGs can be particularly effective when
connecting a multimember Virtual Chassis access switch to a multimember Virtual

Chassis distribution switch.

The Virtual Chassis access switch in this example is composed of two member switches.
Each member switch has an uplink module with two 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports. These
ports are configured as trunk ports, connecting the access switch with the distribution
switch.
Configuring the uplinks as LAGs has the following advantages:
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) can optionally be configured for link
negotiation.
It doubles the speed of each uplink from 10 Gbps to 20 Gbps.
If one physical port is lost for any reason (a cable is unplugged or a switch port fails,
or one member switch is unavailable), the logical port transparently continues to
function over the remaining physical port.
The topology used in this example consists of one Virtual Chassis access switch and one
Virtual Chassis distribution switch. The access switch is composed of two EX4200-48P
switches (SWA-0 and SWA-1), interconnected to each other with their Virtual Chassis
ports (VCPs) as member switches of Host-A. The distribution switch is composed of two
EX4200-24F switches (SWD-0 and SWD-1), interconnected with their VCPs as member
switches of Host-D.
Each member of the access switch has an uplink module installed. Each uplink module
has two ports. The uplinks are configured to act as trunk ports, connecting the access
switch with the distribution switch. One uplink port from SWA-0 and one uplink port from
SWA-1 are combined as LAG
uplink ports from SWA-0 and from SWA-1 are combined as a second LAG connection
( ae1 ) to SWD-1. LAG ae1 is used for another VLAN.
to SWD-0. This link is used for one VLAN. The remaining
ae0
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