Hi, I have been playing this weekend with bonding on PCI netcards and found that all of netcards I have, but old 3com, do not support MII. So bonding is not going to happen with them. Do you have some pci netcards supporting MII successfully running on bonging? Thanks, David Hrbáč
David Hrbáč wrote: > Hi, > I have been playing this weekend with bonding on PCI netcards and found > that all of netcards I have, but old 3com, do not support MII. So > bonding is not going to happen with them. Do you have some pci netcards > supporting MII successfully running on bonging? That is strange. But you shouldn't be needing mii, use_carrier should be working with modern cards - if they come up at once. I have bonding on 2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T where the card takes so long to come up that the bonding driver assumes the wrong link mode (100baseT instead of 1000baseT). But those cards do work with miimon (which uses miitool and/or ethtool). Cheers, Ralph
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Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): > That is strange. But you shouldn't be needing mii, use_carrier should be > working with modern cards - if they come up at once. > > I have bonding on 2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T where the > card takes so long to come up that the bonding driver assumes the wrong > link mode (100baseT instead of 1000baseT). > > But those cards do work with miimon (which uses miitool and/or ethtool). > > Cheers, So finally got it working, r8169 is a piece of crap, at least at 2.6.18 kernel :o). Got e1000 cards (Intel PRO/1000 MT), working like a charm. Seems to me that via-rhine is the very same as r8169. Just for the record: 1. dhcp on bonding adapter with 802.3ad is not going to work, use static one 2. modes 5,6 work both static and dhpc 3. mode 5 works pretty well across multiple switch units 4. mode 6 does not 5. 802.3ad reacts the most slowly, you have to set lacp_rate=fast and set switch LACP timeout to the lowest one. 6. mode 5 setting primary=eth0 - once eth0 is up, traffic goes to eth0 back, without primary remains on the last adapter to run 7. and do not forget to use ETHTOOLS_OPT="speed 1000" on physical adapters 8. test done against DLINK DGS-3110-24 (modes 5,6,802.3ad) and one unmanaged switch (modes 5,6) Regards, David Hrbáč(Continue reading)
David Hrbáč wrote: > So finally got it working, r8169 is a piece of crap, at least at 2.6.18 > kernel :o). I think you can drop the last part. They are cheap and good for home use, I definitely wouldn't use them in a server environment. Although the driver source seems to imply that mii (or ethtool) can be used on that card. Cheers, Ralph
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David Hrbáč napsal(a): > Just for the record: > 1. dhcp on bonding adapter with 802.3ad is not going to work, use static one > 2. modes 5,6 work both static and dhpc > 3. mode 5 works pretty well across multiple switch units > 4. mode 6 does not > 5. 802.3ad reacts the most slowly, you have to set lacp_rate=fast and > set switch LACP timeout to the lowest one. > 6. mode 5 setting primary=eth0 - once eth0 is up, traffic goes to eth0 > back, without primary remains on the last adapter to run > 7. and do not forget to use ETHTOOLS_OPT="speed 1000" on physical adapters > 8. test done against DLINK DGS-3110-24 (modes 5,6,802.3ad) and one > unmanaged switch (modes 5,6) > Regards, > David Hrbáč Ad 1. http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-014450.htm DH
Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): > That is strange. But you shouldn't be needing mii, use_carrier should be > working with modern cards - if they come up at once. > > I have bonding on 2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T where the > card takes so long to come up that the bonding driver assumes the wrong > link mode (100baseT instead of 1000baseT). > > But those cards do work with miimon (which uses miitool and/or ethtool). > > Cheers, > > Ralph Well, bonding's not working for me with r8169. David
Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): > That is strange. But you shouldn't be needing mii, use_carrier should be > working with modern cards - if they come up at once. > > I have bonding on 2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T where the > card takes so long to come up that the bonding driver assumes the wrong > link mode (100baseT instead of 1000baseT). > > But those cards do work with miimon (which uses miitool and/or ethtool). OK, I'm gonna test it with use_carrier. I have been playing with arp_ip_target and miimon without luck. >From documentation: 'It is critical that either the miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target parameters be specified, otherwise serious network degradation will occur during link failures. Very few devices do not support at least miimon, so there is really no reason not to use it.' And as to MII, ethertool on all netcard but old 3com shows no support for MII. And as to bonging I want to get 802.3ad working. Thanks, DH
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