[plug] plug Digest, Vol 126, Issue 9

Sun Nov 16 14:55:54 UTC 2014

Hey
I will answer both emails together

When I unplug one of the cables on the intel eepro 1000 dual card, the
interfaces don't come back up
depending on which one I unplug sometimes both of the interfaces didn't
come back on line, have to do networking restart
when I use balance-rr or active-backup mode

I had disabled the onboard realtek card after the first email. So its a
dual gige intel eepro 1000 mt pci-e card
Basically I just want greater network throughput on my lan
I would be happy using balance-tlb or balance-alb but my tp link sg3424
supports 802.3ad

As I was saying to Hani I have tried to follow both of these howto's
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html
http://www.unixmen.com/linux-basics-create-network-bonding-debian-7-ubuntu-13-10/

I did not set any LACP options on the NIC or switch. I did try LAG on the
switch(tp link's port bonding)
I did not set switch link protocol agg either
(Firstly I was trying basic set up with balance-rr and active-backup to see
if I could get bond0 to work before doing switch configuration)

No I did not set bond-lacp-rate and bond-xmit-hash-policy. I assume that
would go in /etc/network/interfaces?

Am I right in assuming I only need to configure the switch with those above
settings If I am only using 802.3ad?
or are you saying regardless I should set LACP agg LAG and those other
settings in the switch?

Many thanks
Paul

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:36:24 +0800
> From: Paul Dean <paul at thecave.ws>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Bonded ethernet balance-rr and or active-backup
> Message-ID: <20141115203624.47b5c160 at slab4.thecave.local>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hey Paul,
>
> Sounds like networking is doing the right thing if you are removing both
> cables from the bonded interfaces.
>
> The question I would be asking is; Does the bond re-establish when you
> plug one or both back in?
>
> As for the 3rd on-board nic, when you say "confused" are you meaning no
> traffic being passed, or something else?
>
> Are all 3 nic's Intel? and are they all using the same driver?
>
> As for RR or Backup, they have 2 different operations, what do you want to
> achieve?
>
> --
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Dean.
>
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:17:11 +0800
> From: Paul Dean <paul at thecave.ws>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Bonded ethernet balance-rr and or active-backup
> Message-ID: <20141116181711.4e26fbc0 at slab4.thecave.local>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Did you set the LACP options for your bond0? ie `bond-lacp-rate` and
> `bond-xmit-hash-policy`
>
> Also maybe check the switch link agg protocol, make sure its LACP and not
> something else the TP wants to use.
>
> --
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Dean.
>
> "Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:58:03 +0800
> Paul Del <p at delfante.it> wrote:
>
> >Hey Hani
> >
> >Thanks for your reply
> >
> >What I'm firstly trying to achieve is greater network throughput in my LAN
> >for data transfer to from my NAS's
> >From what I have read for modes balance-rr balance-tlb or balance-alb
> >doesn't require switch support?
> >But I am happy to do 802.3ad as my switch supports it
> >
> >what I have is
> >in my debian 7.0 64bit pc I am running 1x intel pro 1000 mt pci-e but have
> >ordered a PT model
> >I have 2x netgear readynas pro's both with bonding enabled also
> >also running this all through a tp link sg3424 which supports LAG
> >
> >my problem is I don't seem to be able to get the 2x intel pro 1000 ports
> to
> >be bonded properly
> >I was using ifenslave on debian 64bit
> >although messages, ifconfig bond0 /proc seems to show fine
> >I have turned on LAG support in the tp link switch for those ports but
> >doesn't seem to help
> >since then I have disabled the on board nic just to be sure
> >mostly been following this
> >
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html
> >
> >(bonding in Linux is new to me so I may of made a mistake)
> >
> >Thanks Paul
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Hani Jabr <hani at nuix.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> What are you hoping to achieve with that setup - greater speed or
> greater
> >> resilience?  Also, what kind of kit are you plugged in to and is it
> >> configured correctly?
> >>
> >> Hani
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 15 Nov 2014, at 18:13, Paul Del <p at delfante.it> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey guys
> >>
> >> Any one had experience doing bonded ethernet on Debian
> >> I have read a stack of Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat Howtos and manuals
> >>
> >> *Specically balance-rr and or active-backup mode
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html
> >>
> >> I am using two interfaces on an Intel dual gigabit nic pci-e card
> 82571EB
> >>
> >> A couple of things:
> >>
> >> my on board Ethernet(the one eth0 I'm not bonding) seems to get confused
> >> with the bonded ones on the Intel pci-e card eth1 and eth2
> >>
> >> I have tried both balance-rr and active-backup mode and when I unplug a
> >> network cable both interfaces on bond0 seem to go down of line(then I do
> >> /etc/init.d/networking restart
> >>
> >> modprobe looks fine, kernel messages are shown in /var/log/messages and
> I
> >> can see the state changes in /proc/net/bonding/bond0
> >>
> >> Also I have set up /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf and
> >> /etc/network/interfaces with the same modes
> >>
> >> I might be missing something obvious or not correct
> >>
> >> Any help or comments would be helpful.
> >>
> >> Cheers Paul
> >>
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Dean.
>
> "Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."
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