Bonding

These scenarios cover some aspects related to link-aggregation, which is the technique of combining multiple network connections in parallel in order to increase throughput, to provide redundancy or both. On OSDx, this can be achieved by using bonding interfaces.

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Test Round-Robin Mode

Description

A bonding interface is configured in DUT0 using the round-robin mode. This mode can be used to achieve load-balancing.

Scenario

Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0:

set interfaces bonding bond0 miimon 100
set interfaces bonding bond0 address 192.168.100.10/24
set interfaces ethernet eth0 bond-group bond0
set interfaces ethernet eth1 bond-group bond0
set interfaces bonding bond0 mode round-robin

Step 2: Set the following configuration in DUT1:

set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 192.168.100.20/24

Step 3: Run command interfaces bonding show at DUT0 and check if output matches the following regular expressions:

bond0\s+192.168.100\.10\/24\s+up\s+up
Show output
------------------------------------------------------------------
Name            IP Address           Admin  Oper  Vrf  Description
------------------------------------------------------------------
bond0  192.168.100.10/24             up     up
       fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c11/64

Step 4: Run command interfaces bonding bond0 show ports at DUT0 and check if output contains the following tokens:

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
Show output
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.10.127

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:11
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:10
Slave queue ID: 0

Step 5: Ping IP address 192.168.100.20 from DUT0:

admin@DUT0$ ping 192.168.100.20 count 2 size 56 timeout 1
Show output
PING 192.168.100.20 (192.168.100.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.609 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.302 ms

--- 192.168.100.20 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 28ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.302/0.455/0.609/0.154 ms

Step 6: Run command interfaces ethernet clear at DUT0.

Step 7: Initiate a bandwidth test from DUT0 to DUT1

admin@DUT1$ monitor test performance server port 5001
admin@DUT0$ monitor test performance client 192.168.100.20 duration 5 port 5001
Expect this output in DUT0:
Connecting to host 192.168.100.20, port 5001
[  5] local 192.168.100.10 port 39532 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   217 MBytes  1.82 Gbits/sec  277    457 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   227 MBytes  1.90 Gbits/sec   91    543 KBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   194 MBytes  1.63 Gbits/sec   24    717 KBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   221 MBytes  1.86 Gbits/sec   64    652 KBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.01   sec   188 MBytes  1.56 Gbits/sec   65    785 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.01   sec  1.02 GBytes  1.75 Gbits/sec  521             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.01   sec  1.02 GBytes  1.75 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Step 8: Run command interfaces ethernet show counters at DUT0 and check if output matches the following regular expressions:

eth0\s+up\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+0\s+\d{2,}
eth1\s+up\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+0\s+\d{2,}
Show output
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name  Oper  Rx Packets  Rx Bytes  Rx Errors  Tx Packets  Tx Bytes   Tx Errors
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
eth0  up        104324   8070164          0      378299  572700532          0
eth1  up        108669   8431600          0      379538  574578156          0

Test Active-Backup Mode

Description

A bonding interface is configured in DUT0 using the active-backup mode. This mode can be used to achieve a higher degree of fault-tolerance.

Scenario

Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0:

set interfaces bonding bond0 miimon 100
set interfaces bonding bond0 address 192.168.100.10/24
set interfaces ethernet eth0 bond-group bond0
set interfaces ethernet eth1 bond-group bond0
set interfaces bonding bond0 mode active-backup

Step 2: Set the following configuration in DUT1:

set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 192.168.100.20/24

Step 3: Run command interfaces bonding show at DUT0 and check if output matches the following regular expressions:

bond0\s+192.168.100\.10\/24\s+up\s+up
Show output
------------------------------------------------------------------
Name            IP Address           Admin  Oper  Vrf  Description
------------------------------------------------------------------
bond0  192.168.100.10/24             up     up
       fe80::dcad:beff:feef:6c11/64

Step 4: Run command interfaces bonding bond0 show ports at DUT0 and check if output contains the following tokens:

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Show output
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.10.127

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:11
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:10
Slave queue ID: 0

Step 5: Ping IP address 192.168.100.20 from DUT0:

admin@DUT0$ ping 192.168.100.20 count 2 size 56 timeout 1
Show output
PING 192.168.100.20 (192.168.100.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.464 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.286 ms

--- 192.168.100.20 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 11ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.286/0.375/0.464/0.089 ms

Step 6: Initiate a bandwidth test from DUT0 to DUT1

admin@DUT1$ monitor test performance server port 5001
admin@DUT0$ monitor test performance client 192.168.100.20 duration 5 port 5001
Expect this output in DUT0:
Connecting to host 192.168.100.20, port 5001
[  5] local 192.168.100.10 port 49398 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   247 MBytes  2.07 Gbits/sec  856   1.60 MBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   242 MBytes  2.04 Gbits/sec  165   1.21 MBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   225 MBytes  1.89 Gbits/sec    0   1.33 MBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec    0   1.47 MBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   282 MBytes  2.37 Gbits/sec    0   1.60 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec  1.23 GBytes  2.12 Gbits/sec  1021             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec  1.23 GBytes  2.11 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Step 7: Run command interfaces bonding bond0 show ports at DUT0 and check if output contains the following tokens:

Currently Active Slave: eth0
Show output
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.10.127

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth0
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: down
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 1
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:11
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:10
Slave queue ID: 0

Step 8: Initiate a bandwidth test from DUT0 to DUT1

admin@DUT1$ monitor test performance server port 5001
admin@DUT0$ monitor test performance client 192.168.100.20 duration 5 port 5001
Expect this output in DUT0:
Connecting to host 192.168.100.20, port 5001
[  5] local 192.168.100.10 port 42410 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   276 MBytes  2.32 Gbits/sec    0   3.15 MBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   245 MBytes  2.06 Gbits/sec  623   1.17 MBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   275 MBytes  2.31 Gbits/sec    0   1.33 MBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   268 MBytes  2.24 Gbits/sec    0   1.47 MBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   229 MBytes  1.92 Gbits/sec   45   1.15 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec  1.26 GBytes  2.17 Gbits/sec  668             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec  1.26 GBytes  2.16 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Step 9: Run command interfaces bonding bond0 show ports at DUT0 and check if output contains the following tokens:

Currently Active Slave: eth1
Show output
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.10.127

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 1
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:11
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: down
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 1
Permanent HW addr: de:ad:be:ef:6c:10
Slave queue ID: 0