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June 13th, 2013 12:00

Linux bonding issues on stacked 6248

Have setup 4 Linux hosts with several bonded pairs spanning between two stacked PowerConnect 6248s and I seem to be having issues with packet loss.  I have configured the majority of the bonded NIC pairs with alb (advanced load balancing) mode and a few with an active/backup.  The active/backup pairs work with no issues.  I can disconnect the active and the secondary kicks on.  The alb pairs seem to allow some traffic through but not all.  I have VM traffic running across the alb pairs and the virtual hosts are showing dropped packets but none of the other interfaces involved seem to be recording any dropped packets.  I have another non virtualized host that is connected to the switch with a bonded alb pair and it is also not showing dropped packets but is experiencing the same issue.  I have set the switch to use portfast for the links as I was thinking that there could be an issue with spanning-tree causing a problem but that was not the case.  I also disabled loop guard on those interfaces as well.  I am kind of at a loss and was hoping that some of you might have some ideas as to what the problem is.

Thanks in advance,

Nate

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June 14th, 2013 12:00

VLAN 10 has been removed from the running config on both interfaces.  That was just there for a test I was performing.  The VLANs on both interfaces do match up.

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I forgot to include that the virtual switch is setup with the same VLANs.  Traffic does get to the virtual guests it is just intermittent.

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June 14th, 2013 12:00

I am running firmware version 3.3.5.5 on the switches.

Here is how all of the interfaces with VM traffic are configured; each side is configured the same on both switches:

interface ethernet 1/g7

spanning-tree portfast

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 10,30-31 tagged

interface ethernet 2/g7

spanning-tree portfast

switchport mode general

switchport general allowed vlan add 30-31 tagged

The non VM traffic ports for the one server are configured like so:

interface ethernet 1/g11

spanning-tree portfast

switchport mode access vlan 30

interface ethernet 2/g12

spanning-tree portfast

switchport mode access vlan 30

The Linux version is CentOS6 and the NICs are Broadcoms 5719 and 5720.

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