Link Aggregation - traffic flow on only 1 NIC

[vanst]

Hi All,

 

I set up up a Static LAG with TL-SG108E. NIC teaming has been enabled on the conputer and when downloading / upload something, I can see that packets are distributed between 2 NIC.

The same set up had been applied for the NAS, I choose "Balance XOR" since the switch is not supporting dynamic LAG.

 

 

 

However, when download / upload a file to the NAS via HTTP / FIle Explore, traffic only flows on one network card.

 

ash-4.3# ifconfig
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:90:28:EA:80:A8
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:720074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3259540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:782275593 (746.0 MiB)  TX bytes:4559670542 (4.2 GiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:90:28:EA:80:A8
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:212119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:21191560 (20.2 MiB)  TX bytes:39678 (38.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 memory 0xd0680000-d06a0000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:90:28:EA:80:A8
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:507955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3259137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:761084033 (725.8 MiB)  TX bytes:4559630864 (4.2 GiB)

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:1128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:152400 (148.8 KiB)  TX bytes:152400 (148.8 KiB)

I am currently running:

 

Quote

 

Jun's Loader 1.04b

DSM 6.2.1-23824 Update 6 - DS918+

Custom build J1900

Intel onboard network card

DUB-1312 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 

 

 

############# Update

 

I have tried to setup interface bonding with Mikrotik hAP AC2. Bonding mode is 802.3ad.

 

The same setting in DSM

 

 

However, still same issue persist. Traffic only goes through 1 network card.

 

 

Could you advise when possible way to troubleshoot. Thank you!

 

Edited June 19, 2020 by vanst
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[jensmander]

802.3ad means LACP. LACP only balances on multiple requests. If you access the NAS from 2 different clients at the same time then both network ports should be used or show throughput. 

 

9 hours ago, vanst said:

Static LAG with TL-SG108E

 

Afaik this switch is unmanaged. Don’t know how you‘ve set up a lag.

[flyride]

18 hours ago, vanst said:

Hi All,

 

I set up up a Static LAG with TL-SG108E. NIC teaming has been enabled on the conputer and when downloading / upload something, I can see that packets are distributed between 2 NIC.

The same set up had been applied for the NAS, I choose "Balance XOR" since the switch is not supporting dynamic LAG.

 

However, when download / upload a file to the NAS via HTTP / FIle Explore, traffic only flows on one network card.

 

However, still same issue persist. Traffic only goes through 1 network card.

 

Could you advise when possible way to troubleshoot. Thank you!

 

 

Again if it wasn't clear from @jensmanders reply, you are testing with one IP stream.  Each session can only use one of the paths.  If you open up a deliberately multi-network threaded application or run multiples independents in parallel, you might see both in use concurrently.  It's 100% dependent upon the algorithm.  Some algorithms will only EVER assign you one IP for all sessions a static timeframe, some will do it on IP session.  Set up a test with multiple devices and multiple concurrent activities to be sure.

Edited June 19, 2020 by flyride

[vanst]

Oops, I keep thinking that LACP allow us to bond network card to have a higher bandwidth, like 1 Gpbs + 1 Gbps => 2 Gbps. I will do more learning about this

 

5 hours ago, jensmander said:

Afaik this switch is unmanaged. Don’t know how you‘ve set up a lag.

I think you are referring to TL-SG108 - an unmanaged switch. TL-SG108"E" is the Pro version with some L2 features like VLAN and LAG.

 

Edited June 19, 2020 by vanst

[jensmander]

Ah, ok. Had to handle the non-E version once and it was dumb.