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LAG with LACP GS752TXPv3 Windows Server
Hello, I have a problem on a GS752TXPv3 with setting up a LAG with LACP for a Windows server (2-port Intel NIC) with NIC-teaming. The Windows configuration ran stable for years on a GS752TXS without any change. Teaming with LACP dynamic. When I set up the LAG on the GS752TXPv3 and set it to LACP (source/destination MAC, incoming port), a broadcast storm starts when the server is plugged in and connectivity is restricted. I can reproduce the issue with W2012R2 and W2022, Intel and Broadcom server-NICs, switch firmwares 6.2.1.32 and 6.2.2.15. What am I doing wrong? Best Kai-Uwe
KHIng
Aug 11, 2025 Place Easy Smart, Plus and Smart Switches
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Ping spikes and packet loss on WiFi
Hi, I’m having trouble with my orbi router with online gaming over WiFi. For the rest it works extremely well with high speed (400 down 40 up) and very low pings (10ms), all on WiFi. However with online gaming I got ping spikes and packet loss which makes it impossible to game online over WiFi. Over Ethernet it works great so it’s not my ISP that is the issue. How can I solve the spikes? There is not QoS option available in the routers interface. I have tried switching the satellite off but the problem remains. Hope somebody can help! Thanks Christiaan
Christiaan11
Apr 06, 2018 Place Orbi Wi-Fi 5 (AC) and Orbi with Voice Mesh
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Prosafe S3300 52X POE stacked : possible to LAG with 2 XS712T
Hello, We have - four (4) stacked S3300 52X POE+ - supporting our desktops and printers - two (2) inner connected via LAG XS712T 10G switches, (since they can not be stacked) - supporting our Hyper-V Cluster and servers We would like to direct connect the two(2) sets of switches (new LAG 2 below) - more for failover / redundancy rather than throughput S3300 <---- new LAG 2 ------- XS712T <--+ S3300 | existing S3300 | LAG 1 S3300 <---- new LAG 2 ------- XS712T <--+ Question - can we create "LAG 2" between the S3300 stack and the 2 XS712T units ? Does the S3300 support LAG with 2 remote inner connected but not stacked Netgear switches ? Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions, bscaz
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bscaz
Mar 06, 2018 Place Easy Smart, Plus and Smart Switches
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Gaming Lag - Firmware?
So here's my situation. Recenlty (last couple months) I have noticed significant lag wile playing COD on my PS4. At first I thought it was my controller, because my charactor was running around like I was drunk (looking left/right, etc was exaggerated). Plus there was a .5-1 sec lag between pulling the trigger and my gun actually firing, not to mention I was extremely choppy on comms (PS4 party). It was not happening all the time, but often enough to cause me to look into the issue further. After eliminating my controllers as the issue, I started to look at the router. I factory reset the router and manually configured it. QoS was turned on. After reset, I checked firmware and updated (1.0.3.20 to 1.0.3.24). Problem continued. Fast forward to this week. I updated to latest firmware (1.0.3.26). Performed a factory reset and manually configured router. Again, turned on QoS. Noticed major lag on my game when other devices are streaming content (wife streaming Hulu and daughter on YouYube Kids). One by one I eliminated devices and found the worst lag was beign caused by the iPad streaming YouTube Kids. I check the attached device list on the router config page and saw that my total DL usage was less than 15Mbps (UL was less than 1Mbps). I have a symmetircal 100Mbps fiber connection so bandwidh is not the issue. On a hunch, I grabbed my old WNR2000 router (yes from like 2009), manually configured the wireless settings to match that of the Nighthawk so all of my wirelss devices would connect without me having to reconfigure them. I turned off QoS and tested. Not a blip. I had 1 TV streaming Hulu, the iPad streaming YouTube Kids, my MS Surface streaming YouTube and my phone streaming YouTube and I experinced no lag whatsoever. So my $30 entry-level, older-than-dirt router was handling traffic better than my 1 year old $200 gaming router. Baffling to me. I went back to the Nighthawk and turned off QoS and matched all of the other network settings from my WNR2000. Lag was now worse even when only the iPad was streaming. Had to turn QoS back on, but lag continued, just not as bad. This prompted me to get into these forums to see if this was a known issue. It seems to me like downgrading the firmware is about my only option (as suggested by multiple users from various lag-related posts). As it sits, it will be unusable for FPS gaming unless I am the only one using the internet. So, before I play the download old firmware, factory reset, install old firmware, factory reset, manually configure and test game, I was wondering if someone coud suggest a specific firmware version that woud be recommended. Loading and testing firmware decrementally will be time-consuming. Looking back at the release notes for prior versions, they only list each version as bug fixes and security updates. I am hoping someone with more knowledge of the firmware versions can make an educated suggestion as to what version to use. I assume it would not be a good idea to go too far back in versions. I am really hoping that this is a firmware issue and not a hardware issue. Very frustrating having a useless $200 gaming router that is being out-performed by a $30 entry-level router. Thank you in advance as any help is appreciated.
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VillageIdiot
Mar 01, 2018 Place Nighthawk Wi-Fi 5 (AC) Routers
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M7300/M4300, and all netgear managed switches, apparently do not support LACP fallback mode
We have both M4300 and M7300 10GbE switches from Netgear in our environment. It does not appear that any netgear switches support LACP fallback mode. We already checked with support and tried the latest firmware. In other words, LACP is either enabled or disabled. There is no way to have it enabled, but to automatically fall back to disabled, when appropriate. This creates significant issues in our environment, and for many others, as any kind of re-imaging of a server using PXE will fail. There is no way to have PXE enable LACP, so as soon as the server reboots and goes into PXE, we lose connectivity. Even outside of PXE, if you take a typical ESXi server that has LACP turned on and then try to reinstall ESXi off a ISO image, you cannot configure LACP during the install, so the 10GbE ports will have no connectivity. Cisco, Arista and every other switch vendor we have seen has some kind of setting to turn on LACP fallback mode. On catalyst it is turned on by default. On nexus it is enabled with "lacp suspend-individual", etc., etc. It would be great to get some feedback from Netgear product management on this topic, as this greatly limits how we can adopt this switch in enterprise deployments. Thanks, FYI, I am waiting for a response before I post this on other forums and product reviews to make sure this is not a mistake or some kind of hidden feature that I could not find.
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ecsrun27
Nov 26, 2017 Place Managed Switches
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NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 R9000 - Firmware Update to Enable Dual WAN Port Bonding - LAG / LACP
Since DOCSIS 3.1 has been released in many markets (Cox, Comcast etc) in the US giving us the consumer options to upgrade to speeds greater to or equal to that of 1Gbps I would like to request to see if it would be possible for Netgear to create a Firmware Update that would give us the ability to Bond two WAN ports with LAG / LACP on the R9000, using the available LAN1 and LAN2 ethernet ports designated for Static LAG or LACP-IEEE 803.3ad. There are now many consumer grade DOCSIS 3.1 Modems that support this due to the fact that speeds are now at or above 1Gbps. In order to bypass the 1Gbps physical port bottle neck, this makes perfect sense. Just for the sake of naming a few modems that have this capability, here I name a few: Motorola MB8600, Arris CM8200, Arris SB8200. I'm sure Netgear will also release DOCSIS 3.1 cable modems that have WAN port bonding simply due to the new speeds of internet available to us via this medium.
Xenku
Nov 06, 2017 Place Submit Ideas for Home Products
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LAG setup JGS524Ev2 and GS752TS kills network
Hi, I am attempting to create a 2 Wire LAG between a JGS524Ev2 and a GS752TS I am using ports 1 and 2 on each switch. I have created a LAG group for ports 1 and 2 on each switch. The JGS524Ev2 is in one room whilst the the GS752TS is in another. I have ensured there is no extra connection between the two switches other than the 2 Wire LAG. The JGS524Ev2 has a laptop and a couple of NAS connected. The GS752TS has 2 DNS servers, an NTP server, a Wireless Access Point and a pfSense Router connected. Before I connect the LAG cables I check communication with a single wire in Port 5 on each of the 2 switches. Everything connects, talks and works fine. I disconnect the cable in Port 5 and connect the 2 wires of the LAG at which point the Wireless Access Point goes berserk, turning itself on and off, the pfSense Router ceases to function as do the DNS and the NTP servers. Yet the laptop still functions and I can call up the GUIs for the 2 switches, which tell me they are transmitting at 1000MB. I am obviously doing something wrong, but followed the NetGear guides that I could find. Can anyone give me some advice please, such as unplug all ports, establish the LAG then replug the devices etc. Or any other strategy that let's everything work. Sometimes the NetGear guides are a bit nebulous... Thanks and kind regards, jB
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britesc
Oct 31, 2017 Place Easy Smart, Plus and Smart Switches
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Link Aggregation with macOS
Hi, I've got two ethernet ports on my Mac mini and have bonded them together with the virtual interface. I've then plugged them both into my GS116Ev2. If I have LAG turned off the Ethernet bond from macOS connects just fine - if I turn LAG on, it disconnects and reports that my switch doesn't support link aggregation. What's going on here? Why are they working with LAG turned off, but not on? Are they even working with an aggregated connection with LAG turned off (is the Mac doing it instead?) should they work with it on?
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HarryCartel
Sep 11, 2017 Place Easy Smart, Plus and Smart Switches
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Trunking between 2 switch stacks (M4300-52G-PoE+ stack & M5300-52G-PoE+ stack)
I'm not a networking expert, so I wanted to toss this question out there to see if someone could point me in the right direction. I have (2) seperate network stacks in 2 seperate builtings connected by a SFP+ fiber trunk connection on ports 1/0/51 on both stacks. I'd like to connect a second SFP+ fiber/trunk connection between both stacks on port 3/0/51 to increase redundancy, but Im not sure exactly how to do it without creating a LOOP situation. I've never done any kind of LAG configuration, but everything I read tends to point me in that direction. I found a post discussing how to configure a LAG ( https://community.netgear.com/t5/Managed-Switches/sfp-trunking/m-p/1061504# )and the person posting referensed a document titled how_to_configure_lag.pdf, but that seemed to confuse me even more, since the browser GUI in that document looks nothing like the browser GUI on my M4300 and M5300. The article also mentioned needing to configure STP on each stack to prevent a LOOP, but I cant seem to find any documentation that can better educate me on how to do this. If anyone out there has any links or insight they can provide me when it comes to combining 2 SFP+ ports into a LAG and then trunking to another switch that also has 2 SFP+ ports combined into a LAG it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, TedW
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TedW
Aug 11, 2017 Place Managed Switches
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Optimal configuration on XS728T for RN626X with LACP bonding
My 10G ports on my RN626X are LACP bonded and plugged in to my XS728T and this appears to work fine without any special configuration on the switch, but am concerned that I am getting suboptimal throughput. How should I be configuring the ports on the XS728T to optimize throughput in this situation? The ReadyNAS ports are configured with a MTU of 9000 (aware that 10G can go larger, but 9000 is compatible with the other devices on the Switch, minimal reassembly, etc.). Advice?
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Tonkinite
Apr 17, 2017 Place Easy Smart, Plus and Smart Switches
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