I’m going to be using a CCR1036 as a router that will be connected to a 24 port Cisco GbE core switch. From the core switch there will be a 2x1Gb LACP configuration going to each of the 5 distribution switches. My question is what would be considered a best practice for the LACP configuration between the core switch and the router. I believe the switch is capable of bonding at least 4 interfaces together and I believe the router is too, but at what point does the overhead outweigh the benefit? Certainly I don’t need 8 interfaces in the LACP group, but I’d like more than 1, so I guess that leaves 2 or 4… Thoughts?
There really isnt any overhead on LACP, it just specifies how the frames should be divided across the ports, and then a single LACPDU packet per port every second.
Trunk as many as you need according to your bandwidth.
I remember I thought I’d be cute and setup LACP on two ports on an RB751U… the CPU went to 100% at around 30Mbps… once I removed the LACP config I was able to get up to the wire speed 100Mbps.
There were a few bugs with LACP and CPU usage back in the day, yes.
These should now be solved, if you see high CPU usage with LACP, definatelly report that to support.