bxe + if_lagg

[Garrett Cooper]

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?
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> Forgot to mention this is 9.0-RELEASE.
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> 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.

Cheers,
-Garrett