Blocked ports with older devices.

Some older devices are limited to four ports in a trunk. When eight LACP-enabled ports are connected to one of these older devices, four ports connect, but the other four ports are blocked. The LACP status of the blocked ports is shown as "Failure."

If one of the other ports becomes disabled, a blocked port replaces it (Port Status becomes "Up".) When the other port becomes active again, the replacement port goes back to blocked (Port Status is "Blocked".) It can take a few seconds for the switch to discover the current status of the ports.

Figure 38: Blocked ports with LACP

If there are ports that you do not want on the default VLAN, ensure that they cannot become dynamic LACP trunk members. Otherwise a traffic loop can unexpectedly occur. For example:

Figure 39: A dynamic LACP trunk forming in a VLAN can cause a traffic loop

Easy control methods include either disabling LACP on the selected ports or configuring them to operate in static LACP trunks.