Distributed Trunking Configuration on HP3810M with 4 x 10G port module

[darrenp]

Hi,

I am finding the setup instructions in the documentation challenging for distributed trunking when in comes to configuring peer-keepalive links.

The command is

distributed-trunking [hold-timer3-10|peer-keepalive <DESTINATION> ip-address|vlan
<VID> [interval <400–10000>][timeout <3–20>] [udp-port <1024–49151>]

I have tried to find an example on the internet but cannot find one.

In each switch, should I create a VLAN, assign an IP address to that VLAN and assign the port to the VLAN to be used for the peer-keepalive links PRIOR to running this command?

and then run this on switch 1

distributed-trunking peer-keepalive 192.168.1.1 ip-address

this on switch 2

distributed-trunking peer-keepalive 192.168.1.1 ip-address

an example would help. There is a cheat sheet on the internet that I found, but it does not configure the peer-keepalive links

[Emil_G]

Hello @darrenp 

Please have a look at the Distributed Trunking Configuration Guide

https://community.arubanetworks.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=bef621e1-aed2-4b29-8d8a-ee885871fd6e

Regarding your question:

...The Peer Keep Alive link is a member of a different, designated VLAN specifically for DT peer-keepalive messages, and is manually created by the user (for example VID 999)....

On page 21 there is a description for the requirement for keepalive links

[darrenp · Accepted solution]

Oh, so helpful.

Thanks heaps

I will review this guide