Static LAG with switch from another brand
Hello.
I know that this question is a stretch, but if someone could drop a hint I would be very grateful.
I have two managed switches, one is a TP-Link TL-SG1024DE, the other is an HPE Procruve J9028B (1800-24G).
I want to create a LAG between both but I am unsure if it can work at all.
While the TL-SG1024DE has the simple Static LAG setting page, the Procurve has other naming schemes that might mean the same thing or not, for example:
- Trunk Membership (Aggregation);
- LACP Setup;
The TL-SG1024DE switch doesn't seem to have any LACP settings, so that seems to be a dead end, but the Trunk Membership - is it possible that it achieves the same funcionality as Static LAG?
On the TP-Link I've created a Static LAG (LAG 1) using ports 15 and 17, then on the HPE Procurve I've created a Trunk Membership (Trunk T1) (Aggregation Mode: SMAC XOR DMAC) using ports 16 and 18; port 15<->16 and port 17<->18. Thei idea is essentially to create a 2Gbps uplink instead of a single 1Gbps uplink, I'm considering expanding it to at least 4Gbps if this works, but how can I be sure it is working?
I don't see any critical issues that should happen when there's a loop, but I also am not sure if I have the 2Gbps uplink between both switches using this configuration.
Aditionally, this is some of the statistics that I could gather from both switches, with a few seconds of delay (~5) between the HPE switch/ports and the statistics in the TP-Link ones:
Port 15 (TPL - LAG 1)
- TxGoodPkt: 2232
- TxBadPkt: 0
- RxGoodPkt: 336566
- RxBadPkt: 0
Port 16 (HPE - Trunk 1)
- Received Packets: 3163
- Received Errors: 0
- Transmitted Packets: 410757
- Transmitted Errors: 0
Port 17 (TPL - LAG 1)
- TxGoodPkt: 761773
- TxBadPkt: 0
- RxGoodPkt: 93328
- RxBadPkt: 0
Port 18 (HPE - Trunk 1)
- Received Packets: 951143
- Received Errors: 0
- Transmitted Packets: 116757
- Transmitted Errors: 0
Thanks for your comments.