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How I got Bonding to work with a TP-Link TL-SG3210 switch
Hello, I thought I would share, since I was puzzled how or why this happened to me and the switch I had. In the end, I got everything to work, and I do NOT think it is a NTGR issue, but if someo...
You definitely want LACP if you are bonding at the switch.
If you have an unmanaged switch, you can try "adaptive load balancing" on the NAS (with no configuration needed anywhere else).
howarddavidp wrote:
The choices were Static LAG or LACP, I guess, but there is little documentation with that switch, so I had to guess.
I agree that the choices are confusing and usually under-documented. You ended up in the right place, and your post will be helpful to others.
Generally the best options with the NAS are LACP (either with a managed switch or an R8500 router), or Adaptive Load Balancing (which works with unmanaged switches). If you don't understand exactly what you are doing, you should simply ignore the other options.
Also, I'd like to point out that the gains for home users aren't very compelling. It's frankly not worth spending a lot of time getting this to work, unless you are in an enterprise environment with lots of users.
Hello,
I am in a quasi-home environment, not a typical home, but also not an office environemnt either.
I have over 20 devices that are constantly connected to my LAN, and at least 15 of those are PC's or MAC's. I have evferything backup with Acronis nightly, between 2AM and 6AM, so at this time I do see high utilization and this LACP connection appears to help with that, judging from how much faster the backup jobs complete vs a single GBe connection.
I am looking into doing this myself, but I have always wished there was an Acronis app for ReadyNAS where I could PXE boot into the device and load Acronis for restores when I have a drive fail (via booting over TFTP to an ISO file stored on my NAS). I know I need to setup a TFTP server (which I have seen available for NTGR), and I also think I would need to make the ReadyNAS the DHCP server, or at least be able to modify the existing DHCP server to pass the "bootfile" parameters in the DHCP info (to clients) to make it work. I have it works on a PC, but not yet with my NAS. My ask would be to have an app that does all of this, but the mods to the DHCP server might be impossible for some who cannot modify this information, but an option wopuld be just use your NAS as the DHCP server. I think people would appreciate this APP if it ever gets made.
Thanks for your input StephenB.
David
howarddavidp wrote:
I have over 20 devices that are constantly connected to my LAN, and at least 15 of those are PC's or MAC's. I have evferything backup with Acronis nightly, between 2AM and 6AM, so at this time I do see high utilization and this LACP connection appears to help with that, judging from how much faster the backup jobs complete vs a single GBe connection.
15 simultaneous Acronis backups certainly can benefit from bonding.
howarddavidp wrote:
...I have always wished there was an Acronis app for ReadyNAS where I could PXE boot into the device and load Acronis for restores when I have a drive fail (via booting over TFTP to an ISO file stored on my NAS).
This sounds like a good candidate for the ideas exchange. Maybe post it there.
My backup window (2AM-6Am) was being overrun about 50% of the time, and I get daily emails whether the jobs finished or not.
Since bonding has been enabled, I have yet to exceed the backup window. Not a very technical way to test, but it solves my problem so bonding 100% helps with my environment :)
Thanks StephenB.
David
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