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iSCSI and Network Bonding
Good Evening Everyone, Just wanted to reach out to the guru's here as I am stumpped at the moment. I have a ReadyNas 314 connected to a TP-LInk TL-SG108E switch. This switch supports the provision o...
Good News Everyone,
I have figured it out !! (I am pretty excited!). The issue seemed to be with the iSCSI setup on the ReadyNas. I went into the iSCSI settings and within the properties of the group the 'Dedicated Link' was set to 'Any'. Changing this to "bond0:x.x.x.x" completely solved the problem.
In answer to your question acwdc, my SMB settings were as follows; Enable SMB (checked), Legacy Windows Discovery (checked), SMB3 Transport Encryption (Configured Globally - Enabled).
Hope this helps someone else out there. I really appreciate everyones help with this - a big thank you !!
Kind of wondered what would be the difference between ANY and the dedicated bond ID. Anyhow, it world now :)
Cheers,John
acwdc wrote:
or use standard IEEE 802.3ad.
No, that won't work. The TL-SG108E only supports static LAGs.
If you are using jumbo frames on the NAS or in the PC, then try turning them off.
think the tplinks use source/dest by mac address as a hash algorithm.
In general, the decision about what packets to put on what link is made by the sender, and is not negotiated. So the switch often does use a different algorithm than the NAS. The hash shouldn't affect connectivity, but it can affect performance.
Good morning everyone, thanks so much for the replies. I think what I may be better off doing is getting another switch that fully supports IEEE 802.3ad.
When enabling Round Robin do I still need to set up a LAG group on the switch or is there any switch configuration that is required at all?
Cheers,
John
Homith wrote:
I think what I may be better off doing is getting another switch that fully supports IEEE 802.3ad.
I have switches that do support it. The performance gains are usually marginal, unless you have a lot of clients running simultaneously. So I wouldn't get a new switch if I were in your position.
Homith wrote:
When enabling Round Robin do I still need to set up a LAG group on the switch
Yes.
But if you try ALB or TLB, then you don't use a LAG group for those.
G'day StephenB,
Thanks so much indeed. You know... really I might just discard the whold idea. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but as you mentioned really not going to get much of a performance boost.
It will have to do.
Cheers guys and have a great dayJohn
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