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John Peck
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2008, 05:09:33 PM »


If this "NIB" is what I think it is, you can't do that.

smit chgenet 
- select a twin port adapter port
- "Enable failover mode" - "disable", "primary", "backup"

The help explains:

The failover configuration for the port.  You can select "primary",
"backup", or "disable".  Select "primary" if the port will act as
the primary port in a failover configuration for a 2-port gigabit
adapter.  Select "backup" if the port will act as the "backup" port
in a failover configuration fora 2-port gigabit adapter.  Select
"disable" if the port is nota memeber of a failover configuration.
The default setting is "disable".

So this sounds like the hardware level version of Ether Channel
Link Aggregation in "backup" mode as described in the main article.
I assume "NIB" was talking about this adapter feature of "backup".
I further assume one cannot mix the two levels.  The beauty of the
software level version is that it's using more than one physical card.

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Michael
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2008, 02:55:13 PM »

I've also recently been reading about Etherchannel and Link Aggregation and have a question about NIB (Network Interface Backup).

If one implements NIB, does that mean one cannot take advantage of Link Aggregation? The literature seems to suggest that.

Thanx to one and all.
Ciao for now.


Not sure: as an experiment:
Start: ent0, ent1 (to become link aggregate), ent2 backup adapter.
1. Create link aggregate using ent0 and ent1 as physical interfaces -> creates ent3
2. Using NIB use ent3 as main interface and ent2 as backup to create NIB interface ent4
3. Test using ent4 as interface.

I may be way off on this, but maybe this will give you what you are looking for. I lack the hardware to test this myself.
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 04:05:49 AM »

I've also recently been reading about Etherchannel and Link Aggregation and have a question about NIB (Network Interface Backup).

If one implements NIB, does that mean one cannot take advantage of Link Aggregation? The literature seems to suggest that.

Thanx to one and all.
Ciao for now.
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John Peck
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2008, 06:14:05 PM »


Well 3Gb would be 384MB and 1Gb 128MB.
So I would think your monitored 95MB throughput is more like 1Gb than 3Gb.

Have you selected Round Robin mode of operation for this EtherChannel ?
(Backup mode will only use the backup adapters if the main ones fail, and Standard mode may be the cause of the lack of monitorable performance.)

Is the switch to which this connects definitely capable of the Cisco EtherChannel linakage ?

Incidentally, I've adapted an earlier posting on this topic for the articles section, which Michael is doing some better screen shots for, and then it should be easier to find and have some focus.  We think Link Aggregation (the improved open version of EtherChannel) is really great.  The recommendation we make for anyone with more than one ethernet NIC port, is to use at least the Backup mode of the Link Aggregation instead of the EtherChannel as such - that has no requirements on switch config while giving you the resilience like an HACMP monitored LAN link.

However, obviously you want the enhanced throughput of either the standard or round robin modes to be using all the adapters simultaneously.  Now if you use the standard mode, a conversation will only be taking place up the adapter it's started on for the duration, whereas the round robin mode will move the traffic over all adapters in the link.  So what you're seeing there might be because you have used standard mode when I think you wanted round robin.

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« on: January 13, 2008, 04:36:39 PM »

All,

I have a little etherchannel question...

I have set up an etherchannel of 3 interfaces (all 1Gb), so i SUPPOSE the setup is now a logical 3Gb interface.

However, if i open NMON (not the last version, version 10p), it tells me that en3 is operating at 1024Mb/sec...

The network-men tell me the ports on which the mac adresses of the physical interfaces are trunked, so all seems ok there...

my question is: how can i TEST an etherchannel on my system? I have done the following:

started through rsh from an other system the "dd" command from /dev/null to /dev/null to generate heavy network traffic.

When checking entstat -d ent3, the interfaces ent0,ent1 and ent2 heavily produce incoming packets, so that's nice :-)

I have started a "dd" command from 2 systems to the system where i made an etherchannel. What a saw in NMON: en3 gave me about 95MB/sec throughput.

Is this evidence enough that i am really operating at 3Gb/sec? Is NMON wrong? Or should i just try a newer version?

OR... does my etherchannel not work??


Please some hints and tips to check my etherchannel!


Greetings!
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