Broamcom 7782 teaming

[Stefan Lang]

I am trying to activate teaming on a customer's Proliant DL380 G4 with dual port Broadcom 7782 NIC running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 with vanilla Kernel 2.4.28. The following problem also occurs when using Kernel 2.4.26, others not tested.

Switches are in a VLAN configuration; Other servers (mainly DL360 G3) under Win 2k/2k3 work with teamed NIC.
VLAN ID is 100 according to customer.

I compiled and installed bcm5700 and with that, both ports run perfectly unteamed (as eth0/eth1).

I also compiled and installed basp and configured it for mode 1:

modprobe basp
baspcfg addteam 0 1 myteam
baspcfg bind 0 0 eth0
baspcfg bind 0 0 eth1
baspcfg addva 0 100 sw0
ifconfig sw0 a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 up

There are no errors during this sequence, interface is up accordign to ifconfig, but I can't do a ping nor anything else.

The problem is the same when using mode 2:
baspcfg addteam 0 2 myteam

Mode 0 gives an error.


Any ideas what I am missing? Is there possibly a parameter for the bcm5700 kernel module that must be set to enable teaming?


Regards
Stefan Lang

[xyko_1]

Hi Stefan,

did you see if your arp table is updated correctly after the team configuration ?

arp -vn will show your arp table.


regards,
xyko

[Stefan Lang]

Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately at the moment I have no remote access to the customer's LAN (including the server's ILO).
I'll have a look at the arp table as soon as I get on the machine again.

Any further suggestions?

[xyko_1]

Hi,

unfortunately no. Pehaps you may see if the arp table of the others lan nodes (switches, routers, etc... ) are been correctly dinamicaly updated.

regards,
xyko