Re: [systemd-devel] How to set primary slave in active-backup mode (bonding)
On Tue, 19 May 2015 18:12:15 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Mikhail Morfikov mmorfi...@gmail.com wrote: I usually have two network interfaces on my laptops (one eth and one wlan), and when I was using sysvinit I also was configuring the bond interface via the /etc/network/interfaces file so the two interfaces could work in the active-backup mode. But now, they work in balance-rr mode which is set via the .netdev file. The problem with this mode is that when you have, let's say wifi 30mbit/s and wired 100mbit/s, you can get 60mbit/s max, and that's why I wanted to use the active-backup mode which switches from wire to wifi and vice versa depending on whether the ethernet cable is plugged in. Generally speaking, I have to set some additional parameters so this could work well, and that would be: We don't yet fully support all the bonding options. bond-primary eth1 This is not currently supported, I suppose we should add the possibility of marking a slave as 'primary' to the .network file (rather than listing the slave in the .netdev file). bond-primary-reselect always This is PrimaryReselectPolicy=always in the .netdev file. bond-slaves eth1 wlan0 This is achieved by setting Bond= in the .network files applied to eth1 and wlan0. bond-fail-over-mac none This is FailOverMACPolicy=none in the .netdev file, which is also the default, so is redundant. I'm not sure if all of them are necessary, and the question is how to pass these parameters in systemd? I'm asking because in the systemd.netdev manual, in the bond section, these options weren't specified. I hope the above helps, but I suspect you really need the feature to specify the primary slave for this to work as you intended. Happy to take a patch! Cheers, Tom Thank you for the information. pgpa9lyjdGv2A.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] How to set primary slave in active-backup mode (bonding)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Mikhail Morfikov mmorfi...@gmail.com wrote: I usually have two network interfaces on my laptops (one eth and one wlan), and when I was using sysvinit I also was configuring the bond interface via the /etc/network/interfaces file so the two interfaces could work in the active-backup mode. But now, they work in balance-rr mode which is set via the .netdev file. The problem with this mode is that when you have, let's say wifi 30mbit/s and wired 100mbit/s, you can get 60mbit/s max, and that's why I wanted to use the active-backup mode which switches from wire to wifi and vice versa depending on whether the ethernet cable is plugged in. Generally speaking, I have to set some additional parameters so this could work well, and that would be: We don't yet fully support all the bonding options. bond-primary eth1 This is not currently supported, I suppose we should add the possibility of marking a slave as 'primary' to the .network file (rather than listing the slave in the .netdev file). bond-primary-reselect always This is PrimaryReselectPolicy=always in the .netdev file. bond-slaves eth1 wlan0 This is achieved by setting Bond= in the .network files applied to eth1 and wlan0. bond-fail-over-mac none This is FailOverMACPolicy=none in the .netdev file, which is also the default, so is redundant. I'm not sure if all of them are necessary, and the question is how to pass these parameters in systemd? I'm asking because in the systemd.netdev manual, in the bond section, these options weren't specified. I hope the above helps, but I suspect you really need the feature to specify the primary slave for this to work as you intended. Happy to take a patch! Cheers, Tom ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
[systemd-devel] How to set primary slave in active-backup mode (bonding)
I usually have two network interfaces on my laptops (one eth and one wlan), and when I was using sysvinit I also was configuring the bond interface via the /etc/network/interfaces file so the two interfaces could work in the active-backup mode. But now, they work in balance-rr mode which is set via the .netdev file. The problem with this mode is that when you have, let's say wifi 30mbit/s and wired 100mbit/s, you can get 60mbit/s max, and that's why I wanted to use the active-backup mode which switches from wire to wifi and vice versa depending on whether the ethernet cable is plugged in. Generally speaking, I have to set some additional parameters so this could work well, and that would be: ... bond-primary eth1 bond-primary-reselect always bond-slaves eth1 wlan0 bond-fail-over-mac none ... I'm not sure if all of them are necessary, and the question is how to pass these parameters in systemd? I'm asking because in the systemd.netdev manual, in the bond section, these options weren't specified. pgpl2qWMR7FIw.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
