bxe + if_lagg

[Tom Judge]

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On 30/10/2012 12:51, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Tom Judge <tom at tomjudge.com> wrote:
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>> On 30/10/2012 12:12, Adam McDougall wrote:
>>> On 10/30/12 11:23, Tom Judge wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to get if_lagg working in an HP blade for
>>>> failover between the 2 in chassis cisco switches, but it
>>>> would seem that the link state is not being propagated up to
>>>> the lagg device.
>>>> 
>>>> Any hints/ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> dmesg: bxe1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10GbE (A0) BXE 
>>>> v:1.5.52 bxe1: Ethernet address: 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4 bxe1:
>>>> ASIC (0x16500000); Rev (A0); Bus (PCIe x4, 5Gbps); Flags
>>>> (MSI-X); Queues (RSS:16); BD's (RX:510,TX:255); Firmware
>>>> (5.2.13); Bootcode (4.8.0)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> bxe1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>>> metric 0 mtu 1500 
>>>> options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
>>
>>>> 
ether 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4
>>>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: 
>>>> Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>) status:
>>>> active
>>>> 
>>>> lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>>> metric 0 mtu 1500 
>>>> options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
>>
>>>> 
ether 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4
>>>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: 
>>>> Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier laggproto failover 
>>>> laggport: bxe1 flags=1<MASTER>
>>> 
>>> Do you need two physical interfaces configured for failover
>>> mode to do any good?
>> 
>> Forgot to mention this is 9.0-RELEASE.
>> 
>> No, a single interface should set status active:
>> 
>> bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>> mtu 1500 
>> options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
>>
>> 
ether 00:1e:0b:c4:00:a2
>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media:
>> Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>) status: active
>> 
>> lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric
>> 0 mtu 1500 
>> options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
>>
>> 
ether 00:1e:0b:c4:00:a2
>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media:
>> Ethernet autoselect status: active laggproto failover laggport:
>> bce0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>
> 
> Have you tried ifconfig up'ing the lagg? Shouldn't have to if
> things were functioning properly, but you might have to.
> 
> If that works, then assigning an address to the interface or adding
> an ifconfig up in rc.local might workaround the issue.
> 

Nope these don't resolve the issue, its almost like lagg cant see the
link state of the members.

Tom
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