Trunking two usb-nics

2022-08-15 Thread Lars Bonnesen
Yeah, I agree... any other solution than USB is better for this, but this is what I have. Startech - they are on the supported hcl list Running tagged VLANs on top of one of these goes well, but if I create a trunk against a cisco catalyst switch, I get random USB IOERRORs and similar. The trunk

Re: Roundrobin Trunking on 5.8

2016-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Obvious question, but: did you go 5.6 -> 5.8 or 5.6 -> 5.7 -> 5.8? > > 5.6 -> 5.8 but followed the upgrade guides for both and ran sysmerge > once? > > for the emailed bug report for the separate issue I said upgraded but > it was a new install. So either this is fixed in 5.9 \O/ or I

Roundrobin Trunking on 5.8

2015-11-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I have upgraded a system from 5.6 to 5.8 and found that whilst the children of a trunk port show output in tcpdump, the trunk port itself whilst looking ok in ifconfig gives no aggregated roundrobin output at all. Any ideas why? p.s. Has anyone else seen anything similar to the following, if not

Re: Roundrobin Trunking on 5.8

2015-11-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I have upgraded a system from 5.6 to 5.8 and found that whilst the > children of a trunk port show output in tcpdump, the trunk port itself > whilst looking ok in ifconfig gives no aggregated roundrobin output at > all. Any ideas why? Sorry, it's not 5.8 but 5.8-current i386 most recent

Re: Roundrobin Trunking on 5.8

2015-11-26 Thread Michael McConville
Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I have upgraded a system from 5.6 to 5.8 and found that whilst the > > children of a trunk port show output in tcpdump, the trunk port itself > > whilst looking ok in ifconfig gives no aggregated roundrobin output at > > all. Any ideas why? > > Sorry, it's not 5.8 but

Re: Roundrobin Trunking on 5.8

2015-11-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Obvious question, but: did you go 5.6 -> 5.8 or 5.6 -> 5.7 -> 5.8? 5.6 -> 5.8 but followed the upgrade guides for both and ran sysmerge once? for the emailed bug report for the separate issue I said upgraded but it was a new install. -- KISSIS - Keep It Simple So It's Securable

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-25 Thread Janne Johansson
2013/1/25 Xinform3n xinfor...@gmail.com: Reply @Thomas Bodzar Why i386 on 12GB of RAM? Did you test amd64 and best option current? Because it's an old Xeon CPU which doesn't support amd64 instructions (only ia64). Don't think xeons ever supported ia64. -- May the most significant bit of

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-25 Thread Janne Johansson
2013/1/25 Xinform3n xinfor...@gmail.com: Don't think xeons ever supported ia64. That's true... I confused Intel 64 instructions. EMT64 ? Anyway, OpenBSD amd64 won't work on this type of CPU, right ? OpenBSD-amd64 runs on intels that do have EMT64. Its just intel that wanted a name for the

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-25 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:18:00PM +0100, Xinform3n wrote: OpenBSD-amd64 runs on intels that do have EMT64. Its just intel that wanted a name for the 64bit mode without amd in the name. You are probably speaking about x86_64, not EMT64. EMT64 isn't compatible with amd64, x86_64 nor a

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-25 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Xinform3n xinfor...@gmail.com wrote: Don't think xeons ever supported ia64. That's true... I confused Intel 64 instructions. EMT64 ? Anyway, OpenBSD amd64 won't work on this type of CPU, right ? I used to run OpenBSD/amd64 firewalls on machines that had

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-24 Thread Xinform3n
Mbps is a respectible speed for a gig card. You are right, but for trunking (with loadbalance or LACP algorithm) it should be double. Thanks for help. I understand the doubts about my configuration, but the performance results through switches or with direct links between the two server

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-23 Thread Robert Blacquiere
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Patrick Vultier wrote: Hi, I tried to use two OpenBSD systems as network load with iperf and netperf. Each server is equipped with two Intel dual NIC gigabit (plus one embedded gigabit NIC), two Xeon 3.2GHz H.T., 12GB RAM and OpenBSD 5.2 i386.

Re: Interface and trunking performance

2013-01-22 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Patrick Vultier xinfor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to use two OpenBSD systems as network load with iperf and netperf. Each server is equipped with two Intel dual NIC gigabit (plus one embedded gigabit NIC), two Xeon 3.2GHz H.T., 12GB RAM and OpenBSD 5.2

Re: trunking

2013-01-04 Thread Dan Shechter
I have never tried trunk on OBSD, and maybe I am miss reading the manual, but even with failover mode you should be careful from having a link connected to a switch which it's uplinks are disconnected from the core. Broadcom and Intel usually provide NIC teaming drivers for Linux/Windows which

Re: trunking

2013-01-04 Thread russell
On 01/03/13 16:11, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2013-01-03, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical interfaces and connect each physical one on different switches? Tnx From the manual; The

trunking

2013-01-03 Thread Friedrich Locke
Hi folks! What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical interfaces and connect each physical one on different switches? Tnx

Re: trunking

2013-01-03 Thread mxb
Try it out by yourself on VMWare ESX. Setups I'm aware of require a stack of two switches, then this will work fine. On 3 jan 2013, at 21:46, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical interfaces

Re: trunking

2013-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-01-03, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical interfaces and connect each physical one on different switches? Tnx From the manual; The trunk protocols loadbalance and roundrobin

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:16:54 +0200 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org [2009-09-02 17:53]: Also, you might want to note the innards of *most* HP ProCurve gear was actually rebranded Foundry hardware. Since Brocade bought out Foundry, I

OT: Rebranding, was: Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 03.09.2009 at 10:06:26 -0700, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: Getting people at HP to just admit to rebranding is impossible, but getting them to tell what's really inside the box is double impossible. HP is a big enough company that I'd expect to be able to open the

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-03 Thread Henning Brauer
* J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org [2009-09-03 19:12]: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:16:54 +0200 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: i don't see any connection to force10. the successor of the 9000 line is the 8200zl and from all i can tell (i never touched on of those myself) has

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:14:52AM -0400, John E.P. Hynes wrote: Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:06:26AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I saw the 8200zl and 5400zl switches at the InterOp Vegas show. Though they are not rebranded Foundry/Brocade, I was told they actually are still rebranded somethings. As I said, I could be wrong recalling Force 10, and after

Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current preference is using Procurve (2810 or 29xx). Do they work? What do you recommend? Any

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Reyk Floeter
slightly offtopic, but procurve works fine trunk(4) was mostly developed with procurve on the switch side On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread tico
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current preference is using Procurve (2810 or 29xx). Do they work? What do

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread John E.P. Hynes
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current preference is using Procurve (2810 or 29xx). Do they work? What do

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current preference is using

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:39:54 -0400 Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need about

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, thanks for all your answers! -- Kind regards, --Toni++

Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Henning Brauer
* J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org [2009-09-02 17:53]: Also, you might want to note the innards of *most* HP ProCurve gear was actually rebranded Foundry hardware. Since Brocade bought out Foundry, I believe HP is now using Force10 Networks hardware inside of their newer (rebranded)

Now OT Re: Recommended Switches for Trunking?

2009-09-02 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, tico wrote: I much prefer Procurve over the cheap SMC or NetGear or Dell managed switches I've had to deal with in the past -- yuck! -T Dell announced today they are going to private label Brocade AKA Foundry switches. diana

Re: vlan trunking with a powerconnect 5224

2008-01-28 Thread Kent Watsen
On a lark I just executed `ifconfig trunk0 up` and now my trunk is working! And, to make it come up automatically, I just added the single line up to hostname.trunk0... BTW, the trunk interface is not documented in hostname.if(5) Thanks anyways, Kent Kent Watsen wrote: Looking at the

Re: vlan trunking with a powerconnect 5224

2008-01-28 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:32:36PM -0500, Kent Watsen wrote: On a lark I just executed `ifconfig trunk0 up` and now my trunk is working! And, to make it come up automatically, I just added the single line up to hostname.trunk0... BTW, the trunk interface is not documented in

Re: vlan trunking with a powerconnect 5224

2008-01-28 Thread Kent Watsen
Looking at the output from `ifconfig` (see below), I notice that the trunk0 doesn't show that its UP - why wouldn't it be up? Thanks, Kent # ifconfig lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 33168 groups: lo inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen

vlan trunking with a powerconnect 5224

2008-01-28 Thread Kent Watsen
I successfully have two vlans running over one physical interface connected to my managed switch (a PowerConnect 5224), but I can't get the same two vlans to work when running over a trunk interface spanning four physical interfaces. Before: (this works, but only uses one physical

vlan trunking OpenBSD/Cisco switch

2008-01-09 Thread Der Engel
Hello, Is it posible to do vlan trunking between an OpenBSD and a cisco switch? I know you can create vlan interfaces in OpenBSD but how would they be trunk with the switch? In the physical interface (hostname.fxp1) i should just put 'up'? Do you have to set some kind of native vlan here

Re: vlan trunking OpenBSD/Cisco switch

2008-01-09 Thread Falk Brockerhoff
Der Engel wrote: Hello, Hi, Is it posible to do vlan trunking between an OpenBSD and a cisco switch? I know you can create vlan interfaces in OpenBSD but how would they be trunk with the switch? Yes, without any problems. $ cat /etc/hostname.em5

Re: vlan trunking OpenBSD/Cisco switch

2008-01-09 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Falk Brockerhoff wrote: On Cisco side: interface FastEthernet0/33 description temp. Uplink to brain duplex full speed 100 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk no cdp enable end Regards, Falk Not that this is meant to be a Cisco training class, but

Re: vlan trunking OpenBSD/Cisco switch

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas Börnert
- Thomas On Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:18, you wrote: Hello, Is it posible to do vlan trunking between an OpenBSD and a cisco switch? I know you can create vlan interfaces in OpenBSD but how would they be trunk with the switch? In the physical interface (hostname.fxp1) i should just put 'up

Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Jon Morby
Hi I'm trying to run an experiment (initially) with regards bonding/ trunking ethernet ports under OpenBSD (current) .. but I'm hitting a snag and I haven't been able to google my way out of it as yet ... I have 2 x Broadcom NICS set at 10mbit full duplex (for the purposes of the test

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/12 12:44, Jon Morby wrote: My problem is that graphs of the 2 cisco ports show traffic is only going via the 1 port and not being balanced across both ports as I would have expected. loadbalance hashes the header to determine which link to use; you might want round-robin

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Jon Morby
On 12 Feb 2007, at 13:18, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/02/12 12:44, Jon Morby wrote: My problem is that graphs of the 2 cisco ports show traffic is only going via the 1 port and not being balanced across both ports as I would have expected. loadbalance hashes the header to determine which

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Jon Morby
Actually .. maybe I'm expecting too much from this ... With 1 of the ports disabled, and roundrobin specified - transfer speeds dropped from 1.2MB/s to about 780KB/s Certainly at GigE speeds the graphs look a little more as I would expect, so it could also be an artefact of testing at

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Reyk Floeter
systems on the other side. i have seen it only once, that i got ~166Mbit/s with a crosslink trunk between 2x2 rl(4) nics. use trunking/bonding to increase the bandwidth and to add additional layer 2 redundancy. reyk

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Claudio Jeker
for that and so bonding/trunking of interfaces give you a sub-optimal performance improvement. -- :wq Claudio

Re: Port trunking/bonding

2007-02-12 Thread Jon Morby
multilink capable L2 portocol (like ppp) to fully use the bandwith of the additional link. Ethernet was not designed for that and so bonding/trunking of interfaces give you a sub-optimal performance improvement. -- :wq Claudio Thanks That explains a lot I guess until we can afford

Biased trunking

2006-03-12 Thread HEINER Péter
, however. Therefore I'd like to be able to route ftp (possibly other protocols, too) through the 4Mb link, while retaining the load-balancing gained with trunking. I know about route-to and reply-to, my question is: is it possible to use it together with trunking and what are the implications of doing

Re: Biased trunking

2006-03-12 Thread HEINER Péter
gained with trunking. I know about route-to and reply-to, my question is: is it possible to use it together with trunking and what are the implications of doing so? peter

Re: Ethernet Trunking

2005-12-12 Thread Lukasz Sztachanski
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:03:28PM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi all, I'm looking at the link aggregation feature (man trunk(4)) of OpenBSD 3.8. In my case, I'd like to use it on Ethernet interfaces : should the switch be configured in a special way or is it level-2 transparent ? I

Ethernet Trunking

2005-11-29 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
Hi all, I'm looking at the link aggregation feature (man trunk(4)) of OpenBSD 3.8. In my case, I'd like to use it on Ethernet interfaces : should the switch be configured in a special way or is it level-2 transparent ? I mostly use Cisco 2950 switches... What are the differences between

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-25 Thread Dries Schellekens
Niall O'Higgins wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:01:23PM +0100, Hyb wrote: It seems that the topic of 802.3ad support (link aggregation|bonding|trunking|whatever you want to call it) seems to come every so often, but is often disregarded on the basis that gigE is now cheap. I see

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-25 Thread Hyb
- Original Message - From: Jim Razmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad But this requires cooperation on the part of the switch. The original poster mentioned connecting to two distinct switches

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-25 Thread Damien Miller
Dries Schellekens wrote: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvsm=111690466011478w=2 How does this compare to NetBSD agr(4)? Is this also IEEE 802.3AD? It does some things that agr does not, but doesn't do 802.3ad yet. Probably soon though. -d

NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-24 Thread Hyb
Hi list, It seems that the topic of 802.3ad support (link aggregation|bonding|trunking|whatever you want to call it) seems to come every so often, but is often disregarded on the basis that gigE is now cheap. I see the redudancy as a much more valuable asset though. We have been recently

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-24 Thread Niall O'Higgins
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:01:23PM +0100, Hyb wrote: It seems that the topic of 802.3ad support (link aggregation|bonding|trunking|whatever you want to call it) seems to come every so often, but is often disregarded on the basis that gigE is now cheap. I see the redudancy as a much more

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-24 Thread Hyb
- Original Message - From: Niall O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hyb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:06 PM Subject: Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad speak of the devil! reyk@ got there already ... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvsm

Re: NIC bonding/trunking/802.3ad

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Razmus
* Niall O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050524 11:10]: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:01:23PM +0100, Hyb wrote: It seems that the topic of 802.3ad support (link aggregation|bonding|trunking|whatever you want to call it) seems to come every so often, but is often disregarded on the basis that gigE