Am 09.05.16 um 20:43 schrieb Dale Ghent:
On May 9, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Stephan Budach <stephan.bud...@jvm.de> wrote:

Am 09.05.16 um 16:33 schrieb Dale Ghent:
On May 9, 2016, at 8:24 AM, Stephan Budach <stephan.bud...@jvm.de> wrote:

Hi,

I have a strange behaviour where OmniOS omnios-r151018-ae3141d will break the 
LACP aggr-link on different boxes, when Intel X540-T2s are involved. It first 
starts with a couple if link downs/ups on one port and finally the link on that 
 port negiotates to 1GbE instead of 10GbE, which then breaks the LACP channel 
on my Cisco Nexus for this connection.

I have tried swapping and interchangeing cables and thus switchports, but to no 
avail.

Anyone else noticed this and even better… knows a solution to this?
Was this an issue noticed only with r151018 and not with previous versions, or 
have you only tried this with 018?

By your description, I presume that the two ixgbe physical links will stay at 
10Gb and not bounce down to 1Gb if not LACP'd together?

/dale
I have noticed that on prior versions of OmniOS as well, but we only recently 
started deploying 10GbE LACP bonds, when we introduced our Nexus gear to our 
network. I will have to check if both links stay at 10GbE, when not being 
configured as a LACP bond. Let me check that tomorrow and report back. As we're 
heading for a streched DC, we are mainly configuring 2-way LACP bonds over our 
Nexus gear, so we don't actually have any single 10GbE connection, as they will 
all have to be conencted to both DCs. This is achieved by using VPCs on our 
Nexus switches.
Provide as much detail as you can - if you're using hw flow control, whether 
both links act this way at the same time or independently, and so-on. Problems 
like this often boil down to a very small and seemingly insignificant detail.

I currently have ixgbe on the operating table for adding X550 support, so I can 
take a look at this; however I don't have your type of switches available to me 
so LACP-specific testing is something I can't do for you.

/dale
I checked the ixgbe.conf files on each host and they all are still at the standard setting, which includes flow_control = 3; So they all have flow control enabled. As for the Nexus config, all of those ports are still on standard ethernet ports and modifications have only been made globally to the switch. I will now have to yank the one port on one of the hosts from the aggr and configure it as a standalone port. Then we will see, if it still receives the disconnects/reconnects and finally the negotiation to 1GbE instead of 10GbE. As this only seems to happen to the same port I never experienced other ports of the affected aggrs acting up. I also thought to notice, that those were always the "same" physical ports, that is the first port on the card (ixgbe0), but that might of course be a coincidence.

Thanks,
Stephan
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