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lag, now what?

Post by Moogle Stiltzkin »

ok so i finally got around to trying out lag.

I tried following the guide here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwPDQrgDAI


but i ran into an issue where my switch became unresponsive that i had to factory reset. Although in hindsight, i may have been able to just remove the bonded ethernet cable first to check if it would fix, or to power cycle, BEFORE resorting to factory reset.

Anyway on my 2nd attempt after working out the order of things, i did get it to work. Although i had to rely on multiple other sources of info to get a clearer idea about setting up lag

https://kb.netgear.com/000051185/What-a ... my-network

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files ... re_lag.pdf


this was a syn video, but the general concepts/explanations apply somewhat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBbf-n6LPU


the qnap tutorial was refering before they added the network virtual switch that replaced the old networking in the UI. so i had to wade through that step by step myself. Does anyone have the updated guide for the newer UI in qts for lag setup?


So anyway i just used 1 ethernet cable first to setup. Then i configured the qnap ts-253d first (not the switch like the qts lag setup says to do. this is going by what others advised). then when i bonded the 2 ports together, i assumed that the ip would be the static ip, whereas the other port that had dhcp would be ignored. But this was not the case. Instead when i bonded the 2 ports together, it became a dhcp. So i had to after manually set it to a static once it had bonded first.

after the qts lag lacp was setup, i went to the managed switch and setup from there. and once that was done, only then did i plug in the 2nd ethernet cable between the qnap nas and the switch.

it seems to work, as the ip for the qnap can be accessed. and in network virtual switch properties, it shows 2gbe instead of 1gbe.


So my question is, anyone know how to go about verifying/testing that lag is working as it should be? iperf? :' suggestions?
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