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=0.409 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.270 ms

--- 192.168.100.20 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 2ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.270/0.339/0.409/0.071 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 56356 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  45.7 MBytes   383 Mbits/sec   35    529 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  43.5 MBytes   365 Mbits/sec   26    554 KBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  45.1 MBytes   378 Mbits/sec    4    568 KBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  37.8 MBytes   317 Mbits/sec   42    583 KBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   134 MBytes  1.13 Gbits/sec  171    406 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   306 MBytes   514 Mbits/sec  278             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   304 MBytes   510 Mbits/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         19819   1503943          0      110403  167128863          0
eth1  up         23655   1801122          0      110391  167108861          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=0.386 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.305 ms

--- 192.168.100.20 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 4ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.305/0.345/0.386/0.044 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 36220 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  40.4 MBytes   339 Mbits/sec    0    854 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   128 MBytes  1.07 Gbits/sec    0   3.09 MBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   162 MBytes  1.36 Gbits/sec    0   3.09 MBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   151 MBytes  1.27 Gbits/sec   95   2.26 MBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   165 MBytes  1.38 Gbits/sec  494   1.18 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   647 MBytes  1.08 Gbits/sec  589             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   644 MBytes  1.08 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 36238 connected to 192.168.100.20 port 5001
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   159 MBytes  1.33 Gbits/sec    0   3.03 MBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   159 MBytes  1.33 Gbits/sec  203   2.18 MBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   179 MBytes  1.50 Gbits/sec    0   2.37 MBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   175 MBytes  1.47 Gbits/sec    0   2.54 MBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   149 MBytes  1.24 Gbits/sec  213   1.87 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   820 MBytes  1.37 Gbits/sec  416             sender
[  5]   0.00-5.00   sec   818 MBytes  1.37 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