I just upgraded one of my servers to a pair of 10gb interfaces and deleted the onboard 1gb interfaces. I was running LACP on the 1gb, and have now configured LACP on the 10gb interfaces. I was checking in the networking tab and noticed that I can add the 1gb interfaces back into the LAG, but I seem to recall that this might not be the best idea to mix ports of different speeds within the same LAG. Can anyone confirm this as a bad idea, or correct my thinking that this isn't an issue?
I did read how FreeNAS handles the aggregated connections, and with up to 55 computers all using this server at once, I should get a good spread across the interfaces in the LAG, but if I could get the 1gbe interfaces back into this LAG, then I would have a little better connection if I had a failure.
All the clients are 1gb.
OS is 11.1-u7 until I can get the down time to upgrade to 11.2-uX
Mainboard is a Supermicro X10-DRi with 32gb of RAM (might double this), and eight 10tb hard drives on the internal SATA ports (yes I know, not the best speed) configured in RAIDZ1 (about 60TB for the array).
Files are mostly audio (wave 44.1khz and 16 bit) or video (mostly mpeg2 compression at 35mbps but might go to DNxHD at 145mbps after testing).
Switches are Enterasys C5125k series with a mix of 24 port and 48 port, 10gb on the SFP+ (XFP) interfaces with optical SR at 850nm.
I did read how FreeNAS handles the aggregated connections, and with up to 55 computers all using this server at once, I should get a good spread across the interfaces in the LAG, but if I could get the 1gbe interfaces back into this LAG, then I would have a little better connection if I had a failure.
All the clients are 1gb.
OS is 11.1-u7 until I can get the down time to upgrade to 11.2-uX
Mainboard is a Supermicro X10-DRi with 32gb of RAM (might double this), and eight 10tb hard drives on the internal SATA ports (yes I know, not the best speed) configured in RAIDZ1 (about 60TB for the array).
Files are mostly audio (wave 44.1khz and 16 bit) or video (mostly mpeg2 compression at 35mbps but might go to DNxHD at 145mbps after testing).
Switches are Enterasys C5125k series with a mix of 24 port and 48 port, 10gb on the SFP+ (XFP) interfaces with optical SR at 850nm.