[Bug 889423] Re: 802.3ad bonding not configured correctly

Stéphane Graber stgraber at stgraber.org
Tue Nov 22 16:10:43 UTC 2011


I'm also going to copy/paste an answer I posted somewhere else:

Also, as noted on IRC, bond-primary seems to be limited to active-backup only.
For reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
Here's a minimal 802.3ad config:

----
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Link Aggregation bonding
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
        bond-slaves none
        bond-mode 802.3ad
        bond-miimon 100
        address 172.22.15.11
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 172.22.15.1

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
        bond-master bond0

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
        bond-master bond0

----

Please try with a config similar to that one as I'd expect kernel errors when trying to change options that don't exist in 802.3ad mode.
Looking at "dmesg | grep bond" may also give some clues as to what's wrong.

That's with my proposed ifenslave package, the one in Oneiric and in
former Ubuntu releases is known to have a race condition so at this
point I'm only interested in feedback on the one that's in my PPA as
that's the one I'll push to Precise and use for SRUs.

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Title:
  802.3ad bonding not configured correctly

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Configuring an 802.3ad bond doesn't appear to work correctly. The following entry in /etc/network/interfaces should configure an 802.3ad bond between interfaces eth2 and eth3:
  #auto bond0
  iface bond0 inet static
    address 10.191.62.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    broadcast 10.191.62.255
    bond-slaves eth2 eth3
    bond-primary eth2 eth3
    bond-mode 802.3ad
    bond-lacp_rate fast
    bond-miimon 100

  However, after booting the system, we have:
    # ifconfig -a
    bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
              inet addr:10.191.62.2  Bcast:10.191.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:feb7:21ea/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

    eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
              Memory:b2420000-b2440000

    eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
              Memory:b2400000-b2420000
    # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
    Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

    Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
    Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
    MII Status: down
    MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
    Up Delay (ms): 0
    Down Delay (ms): 0

    802.3ad info
    LACP rate: fast
    Aggregator selection policy (ad_select): stable
    bond bond0 has no active aggregator

    Slave Interface: eth2
    MII Status: up
    Speed: 1000 Mbps
    Duplex: full
    Link Failure Count: 1
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
    Aggregator ID: N/A
    Slave queue ID: 0

    Slave Interface: eth3
    MII Status: up
    Speed: 1000 Mbps
    Duplex: full
    Link Failure Count: 1
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1b:21:b7:21:eb
    Aggregator ID: N/A
    Slave queue ID: 0

  If I do the following:
    # ip link set dev bond0 up
    # ifenslave bond0 eth2 eth3
    # ifconfig bond0 10.191.62.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
  I get:
    # ifconfig bond0
    bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
              inet addr:10.191.62.2  Bcast:10.191.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:feb7:21ea/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:17 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:2108 (2.1 KB)  TX bytes:3126 (3.1 KB)

    # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
    Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

    Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
    Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
    MII Status: up
    MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
    Up Delay (ms): 0
    Down Delay (ms): 0

    802.3ad info
    LACP rate: fast
    Aggregator selection policy (ad_select): stable
    Active Aggregator Info:
            Aggregator ID: 1
            Number of ports: 2
            Actor Key: 17
            Partner Key: 24
            Partner Mac Address: 00:04:96:18:54:d5

    Slave Interface: eth2
    MII Status: up
    Speed: 1000 Mbps
    Duplex: full
    Link Failure Count: 0
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1b:21:b7:21:ea
    Aggregator ID: 1
    Slave queue ID: 0

    Slave Interface: eth3
    MII Status: up
    Speed: 1000 Mbps
    Duplex: full
    Link Failure Count: 0
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1b:21:b7:21:eb
    Aggregator ID: 1
    Slave queue ID: 0

  I can ping 10.191.62.2 after making the above changes. So, either I am
  configuring /etc/network/interfaces incorrectly or ifupdown/ifenslave
  is doing the wrong thing.

  Note also the number of dropped packages on bond0. Why should I see
  any dropped packages on the bond0 interface?

  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ifupdown 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-server 3.0.4
  SourcePackage: ifupdown
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64

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