TheBlueDalek
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...or have I just screwed it up?
Hi all!
I recently purchased a TP-Link TL-SG2424 24-port managed switch, as I was tired of daisy chaining a bunch of smaller 5 and 8 port un-managed switches. It also gave me the opportunity to trunk multiple NIC's / ethernet ports together. As the switch does not come with LACP enabled, I had to install the latest firmware from TP-Link's website.
I have two machines with multi ethernet ports on them:
- My Ubuntu Server running on a Supermicro board has no trouble, and I am getting true load balancing over both ports.
- my FreeNAS box appears to be setup correctly, but does not appear to be operating as I believe it should.
My FreeNAS build is an AMD A4-3400 APU on a Gigabyte motherboard. The Gigabyte board has a single Broadcom gigabit NIC on board. I recently added an (HP branded) Intel PCIe dual gigabit card for the purposes of relieving network congestion.
The onboard Broadcome is RE0 (192.168.1.120), and the two Intel ports are EM0 and EM1 (192.168.1.122). I have the two Intel ports set as a LAG through the GUI, and LACP enabled within the switch. After rebooting the FreeNAS box, my switch automatically detects the LAG automatically. Running ifconfig shows the following:
I have the onboard NIC set to have the management GUI interface, and I have the dual NIC set as the point of access for NFS access.
I have verified the GUI and SSH is not available over the .122 address, and only .120
The problem I am having, is when I am streaming, the media is being sent out over the single NIC (.120), not out over the LAG (.122). I have confirmed this by starting an XBMC media stream and running the following command on the FreeNAS system:
systat -ifstat
Just to confirm, the fstab on the XBMCbuntu machine is as such:
I have even tried configuring the LAG through the startup menu. I tried 'load balancing' (my preference) as well as LACP.
For comparison, here is the /etc/network/interfaces from my Ubuntu machine:
and the output from ifconfig:
Is there something I have missed or done incorrectly? Any and all help / pointers are appreciated!
Hi all!
I recently purchased a TP-Link TL-SG2424 24-port managed switch, as I was tired of daisy chaining a bunch of smaller 5 and 8 port un-managed switches. It also gave me the opportunity to trunk multiple NIC's / ethernet ports together. As the switch does not come with LACP enabled, I had to install the latest firmware from TP-Link's website.
I have two machines with multi ethernet ports on them:
- My Ubuntu Server running on a Supermicro board has no trouble, and I am getting true load balancing over both ports.
- my FreeNAS box appears to be setup correctly, but does not appear to be operating as I believe it should.
My FreeNAS build is an AMD A4-3400 APU on a Gigabyte motherboard. The Gigabyte board has a single Broadcom gigabit NIC on board. I recently added an (HP branded) Intel PCIe dual gigabit card for the purposes of relieving network congestion.
The onboard Broadcome is RE0 (192.168.1.120), and the two Intel ports are EM0 and EM1 (192.168.1.122). I have the two Intel ports set as a LAG through the GUI, and LACP enabled within the switch. After rebooting the FreeNAS box, my switch automatically detects the LAG automatically. Running ifconfig shows the following:
Code:
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 00:26:55:d8:d5:96
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
em1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:26:55:d8:d5:96
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 5000
options=3898<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 50:e5:49:52:40:1a
inet 192.168.1.120 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:26:55:d8:d5:96
inet 192.168.1.122 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: active
laggproto lacp
laggport: em1 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
laggport: em0 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
I have the onboard NIC set to have the management GUI interface, and I have the dual NIC set as the point of access for NFS access.
I have verified the GUI and SSH is not available over the .122 address, and only .120
The problem I am having, is when I am streaming, the media is being sent out over the single NIC (.120), not out over the LAG (.122). I have confirmed this by starting an XBMC media stream and running the following command on the FreeNAS system:
systat -ifstat
Code:
/0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10
Load Average
Interface Traffic Peak Total
lagg0 in 10.032 KB/s 10.032 KB/s 14.395 GB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.008 KB/s 76.658 KB
lo0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.354 KB/s 108.917 KB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.354 KB/s 108.917 KB
re0 in 0.038 KB/s 8.770 KB/s 1.734 MB
out 807.233 KB/s 807.239 KB/s 9.610 GB
em1 in 0.000 KB/s 0.140 KB/s 8.810 MB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.023 KB/s 339.117 KB
em0 in 10.032 KB/s 10.032 KB/s 14.387 GB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.032 KB/s 413.809 KB
Just to confirm, the fstab on the XBMCbuntu machine is as such:
Code:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=392e04a4-5103-4a57-90d3-7844e89f564e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=deb11f89-12a1-46ed-ba5b-75a856647378 none swap sw 0 0 192.168.1.122:/mnt/storage/media /mnt/media nfs rsize=131072,wsize=131072,rw,intr,noatime 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
I have even tried configuring the LAG through the startup menu. I tried 'load balancing' (my preference) as well as LACP.
For comparison, here is the /etc/network/interfaces from my Ubuntu machine:
Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
#eth0 is manually configured, and slave to the "bond0" bonded NIC
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
bond-master bond0
#eth1 ditto, thus creating a 2-link bond.
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
bond-master bond0
# bond0 is the bonded NIC and can be used like any other normal NIC.
# bond0 is configured using static network information.
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet dhcp
# bond0 uses standard IEEE 802.3ad LACP bonding protocol
bond-mode 4
bond-miimon 100
bond-lacp-rate 1
bond-slaves none
and the output from ifconfig:
Code:
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:c7:99:6c
inet addr:192.168.1.148 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fec7:996c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16962880 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13733017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15582600559 (15.5 GB) TX bytes:15836762907 (15.8 GB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:c7:99:6c
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16943462 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10398168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15580267837 (15.5 GB) TX bytes:15376140363 (15.3 GB)
Interrupt:71 Memory:de420000-de440000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:c7:99:6c
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19418 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3334849 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2332722 (2.3 MB) TX bytes:460622544 (460.6 MB)
Interrupt:70 Memory:de460000-de480000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2015030 (2.0 MB) TX bytes:2015030 (2.0 MB)Is there something I have missed or done incorrectly? Any and all help / pointers are appreciated!
