HP HPE7-A08 - HPE Aruba Networking Certified Professional – Switching

Colorless ports allow network devices to move or replace endpoints without changing port-level configurations, typically by automatically assigning network policies dynamically to any port.

HPE Aruba’s solution for colorless ports is the VNBT (Virtual Network Boundary Tagging) feature. VNBT allows dynamic segmentation of traffic, so ports can automatically take on the policies assigned to devices regardless of physical port location.

VRRP is a first-hop redundancy protocol and unrelated to port colorlessness.

VSF (Virtual Switching Framework) is for switch stacking.

VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) is for traffic segmentation.

Thus, VNBT is the correct feature to meet colorless port requirements.

The LACP state event Actor state: ALFNCD, Partner state: ASFNCD indicates that the LACP negotiation between the local (actor) and peer (partner) is successful with all flags matching and no errors.

ALFNCD and ASFNCD are standard LACP states indicating Active, Long timeout, Aggregation capable, Not synchronized, Collecting, and Distributing flags set as expected.

Also, the log shows the LACP rate is set to slow, which is the default.

Thus, the output shows the LAG 253 has a matching LACP configuration with its peer.