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IEEE 802.3ad on GSS116E as advertised?
The new GSS116E switch (not old GS116E) is advertised as supporting IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation standards. Note that my Synology NAS does not support the proprietary Netgear-LAG mode, and requir...
Hi Eaglehawk,
The GSS116E switch only supports static LAG (see datasheet) compared to the GS108T which is a smart managed switch which has static LAG and LACP support. See instructions on enabling LAG on the datasheet, please click here.
Thanks,
Same thing here...Synology 1815+ and LAG do not work.
Hi NGDude,
Welcome to the community! :)
I'm afraid that only static LAG is supported on the GSS116E. I would recommend you the Smart Switch Series of NETGEAR here.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hello Netgear,
it is even not planned to enable LACP through the firmware? As the technology itself is already supported in this switch. I also bought this one because of the technology availabled the LACP function and primarily I needed the clickable function.
BR,
Tamas
Hi ngts,
Welcome to the community! :)
You may want to post your concern about having LACP be supported on the GSS116E switch on the Idea Exchange Board for Business here. Be reminded that adding kudos to the ideas posted will help as the development team will be reviewing the post that has the most kudos for it to be considered to be added as a future functionality of the product.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Both LACP and Static LAGs are covered by 802.3ad standard.
Static was in an "early" release of 802.3ad, LACP in a more recent version.
Neither of them are NETGEAR proprietary protocols, they both in the 802.3ad standard.
That's why on the Datasheet, it's stated "IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation: Static LAG". It might be a tiny bit confusing, but it doesn't say LACP anywhere, so it is correct.
As far as I know, no ProSafe Plus / Click Switches from NETGEAR (ending up by an "E") supports LACP LAGs, but most of them support Static LAGs. I'm also pretty it's never gonna be added on those switches as the chip is probably not powerful enough to process hashes as required by LACP.
If you look at the Synology article on how to create a bond, you also get the response:
LACP LAG on NETGEAR switch is IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation on the Synology.
Static LAG on NETGEAR switch is Balance XOR (IEEE 802.3ad draft v1), this is sometimes called Round-Robin.
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