We have a Poweredge R210 running WS2K8R2. The server has two Broadcom 5716C NICs running Broadcom BASP. I can team the NICs using the 802.3ad protocol on the server end no problem. I have no VLAN.
Now I go to the 2824 switch (default settings all round) running in managed mode and create a LAG with ports g1 and g2. As soon as I add these ports, I lose the ability to send traffic to or from the server.
I am much more of a server guy than a networking guy, what am I doing wrong here?
Server Static IP Address: 10.10.61.15
Network mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 10.10.61.51
The 2824 switch has an IP address of 10.10.61.51 and in turn has its gateway as our firewall server running ISA Server at 10.10.61.50.
Best Answer
I don't believe the 2800 series PowerConnects are Layer 3 switches. The only mentioning I can find of Layer 3 in regards to this series is the QoS is Layer 3 aware. That would mean setting your gateway to the switch will make it unable to get out to other networks, as 'Chris S' said skip the middle man, point straight to the ISA for the default gateway.
As for the LACP issue, these switches support 802.3ad in static form only, not auto-negotiated using LACP. This means you have to great the bundle yourself. See the manual on how to do that. I think you'd need to change the Broadcomm configuration to use FEC/GEC generic trunking option instead of LACP. I don't have a box I can test to verify at the moment.