I need a little assistance as we are looking into designing a Disaster Recovery site and are in the process of designing it. We have 2 1 gig fiber links
being handed to us for the connection back to the HQ location. The problem is, how do I terminate these 2 fiber links to provide a full 2 gig connection back to the Headquarters location? This is where I thought we could possibly do a port-channel with 2 of the interfaces located on the ASR 1002 router, however, I'm not sure this I can do port-channels from a switch to a router. I'm able to get the port-channel to come up, but I can't seem to get traffic to pass (unable to ping across it). In addition to this location, we will also be putting in a nexus 5k/2k deployment as well. Upon considering terminating the port-channel to the 5k, we don't believe we would be able to perform the GRE and CRYPTO tunnels by doing it this way. And since we would be moving across a foreign network to get back to our HQ, we want the GRE and Crypto options.
Again, I did try to set up the portchannel from switch to router locally and was able to get all links up, Upon showing the port-channel information, it showed the combined bandwidth of the two links. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get a ping across it. I didn't understand this and am looking for some assistance.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
