HP A5500-48G EI IRF-port aggregation problem

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I have two A5500-48G EI switches that I need to stack. I use two-port 10G modules and CX4 cables. IRF is established, and everything is ok while I use one connection between the switches only. As soon as I connect the second CX4 cable, everything stops working.

Actually, I would like to aggregate two physical ports for each irf-port. In the master switch 10G module is at module position 1, physical ports 1 and 2 are dedicated to irf-port 1; and in the slave 10G module is at positon 2, physical ports 3 and 4 are dedicated to irf-port 2. So, if I connect one cable between the irf-ports only it is ok, if I connect both cables, it doesn't work. I'm not sure if this config is right?

Thanks!

[Fredrik Lönnman]

Hi,

Could you please include the configuration on your switches.

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Hi,

here is the config file.

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and also irf topology

[Fredrik Lönnman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

From your configs I'm guessing you have something like this:

irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 2
irf member 2 irf-port 2 port 4

 right?

You should be able to list two physical ports as each virtual irf-port as this:

irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 1 2
irf member 2 irf-port 2 port 3 4

[lab]irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 1 2 ?
  <1,2,3,4>  Port can be used for IRF-port or aggregated with other ports as
             IRF-port
  <cr>

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thanks srg!

it is ok now. For some reason I beleived that I should enter two commands for aggregation (for two ports), i.e.

irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 1
irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 2

only just started with h3c... :)

[Faisal7c]

Dears,

I have issue with IRF in 5500 e1 series switch, i read lots of documents and did not find the proper configuration steps of this perticuler model.attached the network topology i'm planned and here is the command i tried.

SW-1

irf member 1 renumber 1 (rebooted)

int ten-gi1/2/1 shut

int ten-gi1/2/2 shut now i tried irf-port 1/2 but this command not supporting for the device and itried the below which i got from this forum

irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 1 this command accepting but nothing happend irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 2 not accepting,please help to configure the IRF on5500 series models

Thank you

irf member 1 irf-port 1 port 1 2 ?
  <1,2,3,4>  Port can be used for IRF-port or aggregated with other ports as
             IRF-port

[Fredrik Lönnman]

what sw version are you running?

[Dayalan]

I have two A5500-48G EI switches that I need to stack. I use two-port 10G modules and CX4 cables. 

Could you tell how to config these and I need of port aggregation.

Thanks!