LACP support on Balance 310 HW5

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Hey, could we get LACP support on the 310 HW5 please.

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@bryn.loftus can you share with us your use case? Want to understand the demand. :wink:

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So we can connect 1 (or 2) 310’s resiliently to the lan side switches.

We usually have stacked or mlag on the lan switch side (extreme 4220/5420/7520, hp flexfabric, meraki ms220 etc).

Like this:

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We can do that for SDX, SDX Pro, 1350EC, 310 5G (previous model)… even the br1 pro 5g supports it. But not the new balance 310 (or the B One 5G).

It would be nice if it was like HA, supported on everything… but the 310 is the biggest place we miss it, as the old 310 5G had it and the new 310 does not (I am aware the new 310 5G HW3 does)

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@bryn.loftus we have prepared a special firmware (8.6.1s003) that added LACP support specifically for the Balance 310-HW5, you may download it here.

I have briefly tested it and it should be working. You may try it out and share your feedback with us.

NOTE:
It is based on firmware 8.6.1 RC 2 (expected to be GA).

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Great improvement! Would be great of course if Peplink (Rugged) Switches would also support stacking so we could use this nice feature on a redundant Peplink switch fabric :slight_smile:

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I have been pleading for stacking or MLAG capability as well! The hardware things required to make a deployment fully resilient include (from edge to inside):

  • wan switch for each wan with bypass capability (the old 16 port sd-switch fulfilled this, although it could be smaller for this use case)
  • HA capability on the peplinks (they all have this, ++)
  • Dual PSU on the peplinks (not on all unfortunately, can be done with a relay based external PSU)
  • LACP capability on the peplinks (all the bigger ones, now including the 310 HW5, thank you)
  • The right interface pairs to connect to the switches (fine on copper, if using fibre worked on the old 310 5G HW1/2 but not on the new HW3)
  • Switches that can do multi-chassis lacp (so stacking or mlag). We do this part with Extreme/Meraki/HP or other switches that have that capability.

For cellular, things like the BR1 Mini or 5G adapter in synergy mode are great… but they could be even better if they had 2x ports with POE in. Then you could have say 2x Balance 310 HW5 in HA, with both WAN2 ports connected to the 5G synergy device and no other hardware required. That would be very cool.

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I would add synergy mode support for two synergy controllers on one synergized device in HA active-active mode as well, where the master synergy controller actively manages the synergized devices and the slave controller doesn’t manage (only takes over when master drops out) but is still able to send traffic through its WAN connections. This way the slave unit in a HA pair can maintain Speedfusion tunnels, speeding up master-slave transition and realizing unbreakable connections.

My current HA setup unfortunately isn’t using synergy mode for this reason, which makes it also impossible to use the WiFi WAN connection of a BR1 Mini next to it’s LTE when attached to the B310 speedfusion router.

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Thank you- I have tested it but we seem to have an issue with passing tagged traffic over it. I’ll log a ticket.

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@bryn.loftus sure, let’s work on the details via the ticket.