Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:18:19 +0100 From: Snoop <snoop@email.it> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, dweimer@dweimer.net Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LAGG bug or misconfiguration??? Message-ID: <1331893099.4898.10.camel@urano.inhio.eu> In-Reply-To: <9D882CD7-5BD1-4A49-86AB-DD8A5B86D4EC@my.gd> References: <1331838392.1453.5.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> <9D882CD7-5BD1-4A49-86AB-DD8A5B86D4EC@my.gd>
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Hi Dweimer and Damien, thanks for replying. The server is connected to a switch of the datacentre. The configuration of this switch is unknown to me and I obviously have no access to it but I truly believe that such an enterprise environment has management capabilities. Anyway, in which way the configuration would affect the lagg functionality? Might this issue be related to what stated in the FreeBSD LAGG pages in the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html "Cisco® Fast EtherChannel® Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), is a static setup and does not negotiate aggregation with the peer or exchange frames to monitor the link. If the switch supports LACP then that should be used instead." On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 10:45 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Sorry top posting from phone. > > > Show your switch's port configurations. > > We're using VLAN tagging over lagg failover interfaces at work and I have already tried the tests you described, to much better results. > > We're also running 8.2 so the only thing that seems to differ between us is the switch config, likely. > > > > On 15 Mar 2012, at 20:06, Snoop <snoop@email.it> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > a while after setting up my new server (with 8 jails in it) I've decided > > (after postponing several times) to properly check the functionality of > > the lagg and the result was very disappointing. > > > > The test I've done is very simple. > > I've started copying a file from one site to another of my VPN network > > (from the server I've been testing the net to another node somewhere > > else) and in the meantime I've been physically disconnecting the main > > network cable to check the responsiveness of the lagg configuration. > > Then I've plugged the cable back to check if the traffic would switch > > back to the main NIC as it should. > > > > The result was basically this (lagg0 members: bge0 primary, bge1 > > secondary) > > > > - when bge0 unplugged the traffic switched almost instantaneously to > > bge1 > > - when bge0 plugged back in, the network stopped working completely with > > the two NICs polling synchronously until I manually unplug bge1. Then > > within 2-4 seconds traffic goes back on bge0 (I've been waiting for a > > little more than a minute maximum to avoid all the active connections on > > the server to timeout). > > > > Now, I've repeated the same test about 10-15 times randomly waiting for > > different times between the unplug-replug procedure. The result was > > always the same. > > > > So, below are the ipconfig outputs > > - before to start the test > > - when bge0 gets unplugged > > - when bge0 gets plugged back in > > > > I couldn't see anything odd. > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > > 1500 > > > > options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE> > > ether 00:14:ee:00:8a:c0 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.224 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast xxx.xx.xx.255 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.227 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.227 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.225 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.225 > > inet 172.16.3.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.2 > > inet 172.16.3.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.3 > > inet 172.16.3.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.4 > > inet 172.16.3.5 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.5 > > inet 172.16.3.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.6 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.226 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.226 > > media: Ethernet autoselect > > status: active > > laggproto failover > > laggport: bge1 flags=0<> > > laggport: bge0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE> > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > > 1500 > > > > options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE> > > ether 00:14:ee:00:8a:c0 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.224 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast xxx.xx.xx.255 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.227 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.227 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.225 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.225 > > inet 172.16.3.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.2 > > inet 172.16.3.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.3 > > inet 172.16.3.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.4 > > inet 172.16.3.5 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.5 > > inet 172.16.3.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.6 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.226 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.226 > > media: Ethernet autoselect > > status: active > > laggproto failover > > laggport: bge1 flags=4<ACTIVE> > > laggport: bge0 flags=1<MASTER> > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu > > 1500 > > > > options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE> > > ether 00:14:ee:00:8a:c0 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.224 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast xxx.xx.xx.255 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.227 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.227 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.225 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.225 > > inet 172.16.3.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.2 > > inet 172.16.3.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.3 > > inet 172.16.3.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.4 > > inet 172.16.3.5 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.5 > > inet 172.16.3.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.16.3.6 > > inet xxx.xx.xx.226 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast xxx.xx.xx.226 > > media: Ethernet autoselect > > status: active > > laggproto failover > > laggport: bge1 flags=0<> > > laggport: bge0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE> > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > > Also nothing unusual on dmesg: > > > > ....... > > bge0: link state changed to DOWN > > bge0: link state changed to UP > > bge1: link state changed to DOWN > > bge1: link state changed to UP > > bge0: link state changed to DOWN > > bge0: link state changed to UP > > bge1: link state changed to DOWN > > bge1: link state changed to UP > > bge0: link state changed to DOWN > > bge0: link state changed to UP > > bge1: link state changed to DOWN > > bge1: link state changed to UP > > ....... > > > > The following is the related configuration in rc.conf: > > > > ....... > > ifconfig_bge0="up" > > ifconfig_bge1="up" > > cloned_interfaces="lagg0" > > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport bge1 > > xxx.xx.xx.224/24" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_0="inet xxx.xx.xx.225/32" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_1="inet xxx.xx.xx.226/32" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_2="inet xxx.xx.xx.227/32" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_3="inet 172.16.3.2/27" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_4="inet 172.16.3.3/27" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_5="inet 172.16.3.4/27" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_6="inet 172.16.3.5/27" > > ifconfig_lagg0_alias_7="inet 172.16.3.6/27" > > ....... > > > > The system is an IBM xSeries 336 type 8837 > > kern.version: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:45:57 UTC 2011 > > > > Just for the record, I've done the test from the host (xxx.xx.xx.224/24) > > not from any of the jail in place. > > Any idea or similar issue around? 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