<div dir="ltr">Hey Hani<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply<br><div><br></div><div>What I'm firstly trying to achieve is greater network throughput in my LAN for data transfer to from my NAS's</div><div>From what I have read for modes balance-rr balance-tlb or balance-alb doesn't require switch support?<br></div><div>But I am happy to do 802.3ad as my switch supports it</div><div><br></div><div>what I have is</div><div>in my debian 7.0 64bit pc I am running 1x intel pro 1000 mt pci-e but have ordered a PT model</div><div><div>I have 2x netgear readynas pro's both with bonding enabled also</div></div><div>also running this all through a tp link sg3424 which supports LAG</div><div><br></div><div>my problem is I don't seem to be able to get the 2x intel pro 1000 ports to be bonded properly</div><div>I was using ifenslave on debian 64bit</div><div>although messages, ifconfig bond0 /proc seems to show fine</div><div>I have turned on LAG support in the tp link switch for those ports but doesn't seem to help</div><div>since then I have disabled the on board nic just to be sure</div><div>mostly been following this <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>(bonding in Linux is new to me so I may of made a mistake)</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Paul</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Hani Jabr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hani@nuix.net" target="_blank">hani@nuix.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Hani<br><br><div><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 15 Nov 2014, at 18:13, Paul Del <<a href="mailto:p@delfante.it" target="_blank">p@delfante.it</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hey guys
<div><br></div><div>Any one had experience doing bonded ethernet on Debian</div><div><div>I have read a stack of Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat Howtos and manuals</div></div><div><br></div><div>*Specically balance-rr and or active-backup mode</div><div><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html" target="_blank">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am using two interfaces on an Intel dual gigabit nic pci-e card 82571EB</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of things:</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>modprobe looks fine, kernel messages are shown in /var/log/messages and I can see the state changes in /proc/net/bonding/bond0</div><div><br></div><div>Also I have set up /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf and /etc/network/interfaces with the same modes</div><div><br></div><div>I might be missing something obvious or not correct</div><div><br></div><div>Any help or comments would be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Paul</div></div>
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