Configures LACP on this port. LACP allows directly connected
- switches to negotiate which links may be bonded. LACP may be enabled
- on non-bonded ports for the benefit of any switches they may be
+ switchs to negotiate which links may be bonded. LACP may be enabled
+ on non-bonded ports for the benefit of any switchs they may be
connected to. active
ports are allowed to initiate LACP
negotiations. passive
ports are allowed to participate
in LACP negotiations initiated by a remote switch, but not allowed to
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to detect failures. lacp-system-id
lacp-system-priority
lacp-time
fast
and
- slow
. By default slow
is used. When
- configured to be fast
more frequent LACP heartbeats
- will be requested causing connectivity problems to be detected more
- quickly.The LACP timing which should be used on this
+ . Possible values are fast
,
+ slow
and a positive number of milliseconds. By
+ default slow
is used. When configured to be
+ fast
LACP heartbeats are requested at a rate of once
+ per second causing connectivity problems to be detected more
+ quickly. In slow
mode, heartbeats are requested at
+ a rate of once every 30 seconds.
Users may manually set a heartbeat transmission rate to increase
+ the fault detection speed further. When manually set, OVS
+ expects the partner switch to be configured with the same
+ transmission rate. Manually setting lacp-time
to
+ something other than fast
or slow
is
+ not supported by the LACP specification.
lacp-strict
true
, configures this to
+ require successful LACP negotiations to enable any slaves.
+ Defaults to false
which safely allows LACP to be used
+ with switchs that do not support the protocol.