AIR-CT5508 connected to VSS MEC

[Jorge Ruiz de Eguilaz y de Leon]

Hello,

I need to connect a WLC AIR-CT5508 with a Catalyst 6500 VSS.

In the WLC Configuration guide, talking about LAG, Cisco says:

"When configuring bundled ports on the controller, you may want to consider terminating on two different modules within a modular switch such as the Catalyst 6500; however, Cisco does not recommend connecting the LAG ports of a 5500 or 4400 series controller to multiple Catalyst 6500 or 3750G switches."

¿Does this statement apply with a VSS?

¿Has anyone ever connected a WLC AIR-CT5508 with LAG to a MEC configured in a VSS? ¿May I do it?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Jorge

[Nicolas Darchis · Accepted solution]

Hi Jorge,

this does not apply to VSS.

The whole point is "if you are doing LAG, you want to terminate the link on something that can reassemble the packets". I.e. a switch with several modules can do a port-channel with ports from different modules.

The same way, a VSS allows to build a port-channel just as if you only had one switch (as far as I know). So that is ok.

It's just wrong to connect the WLC to 2 different switches that can't build a portchannel together.

Hope it clarifies :-)

Nicolas

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