Juniper Config Commit causes Cisco Etherchannels to go into err-disable state

Fri Apr 6 18:31:17 UTC 2018

What it's telling you is totally unclear, though. I've asked TAC to
explain to me the packet behaviour that generates this errdisable, and
haven't been able to get a clear answer from them. It seems to come out
of 'nowhere' on multi-vendor networks, where all other vendors are
perfectly happy and no operational or configuration issue is evident,
other than Cisco shutting the port. As far as I can tell from the
documentation's description of this case, it should not even be possible
for it to trigger when LACP is in use (as the 'port channel' is
negotiated by LACP, not configured by the user...), yet it certainly can.

FWIW, I've also seen this between Juniper and Cisco, and have been
forced to disable the misconfig detection.

If you know exactly what Cisco's STP is telling me happened with this
error, I'd really love to know, it might at least help to understand how
it could be triggering, because it is definitely not 'port-channel
misconfiguration'.

Keenan

On 2018-04-05 02:26 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> It really does not resolve anything it just allows a bad configuration to work.  The guard is there so that if one side is configured as a channel and the other side is not, the channel gets shut down.  Allowing it to remain up can cause a BPDU loop.  Your spanning tree is trying to tell you something, you should listen or you could get really hard to isolate issues.
>
> Steven Naslund
> Chicago IL  
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Jenkins
>> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2018 4:16 PM
>> To: Robert Webb
>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Juniper Config Commit causes Cisco Etherchannels to go into err-disable state
>>
>> No there isn't, but from what I am getting responses both onlist and off list is to just run this on the Cisco switches:
>>
>> no spanning-tree etherchannel guard misconfig
>>
>> and that should resolve the issue.
>>
>> Thanks Everyone.