Re: VLANs, bonding redux: vlan state does not follow ethernet

["George B." <georgeb@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:24 PM, George B. <georgeb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using 2.6.34 I am trying to remove bottlenecks.  Instead of bonding
> two ethernet interfaces and applying vlans to the bond, I am applying
> the vlans to the ethernet and bonding the vlans creating a separate
> bond interface for each vlan.
>
> The trouble now is that the bond interface does not see when the
> ethernet interface goes down.  The vlan reports to the bonding driver
> that it is up when the ethernet it is connected to is down.  This
> results in packet loss through the bond interface as the bond driver
> attempts to use that vlan.
>
> eth1 shows having no link:
>
> root@sandbox:/proc/net# ethtool eth1
> Settings for eth1:
>        Supported ports: [ TP ]
>        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                                1000baseT/Full
>        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                                1000baseT/Full
>        Advertised pause frame use: No
>        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>        Link partner advertised link modes:  Not reported
>        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
>        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
>        Speed: Unknown!
>        Duplex: Unknown! (255)
>        Port: Twisted Pair
>        PHYAD: 1
>        Transceiver: internal
>        Auto-negotiation: on
>        MDI-X: Unknown
>        Supports Wake-on: pumbag
>        Wake-on: g
>        Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
>        Link detected: no
>
> bonding driver says eth1.99 reports MII status up:
>
> root@sandbox:/proc/net# cat bonding/bond0
> Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)
>
> Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
> MII Status: up
> MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
> Up Delay (ms): 0
> Down Delay (ms): 0
>
> Slave Interface: eth0.99
> MII Status: up
> Link Failure Count: 0
> Permanent HW addr: 00:26:9e:1c:d3:3e
>
> Slave Interface: eth1.99
> MII Status: up
> Link Failure Count: 0
> Permanent HW addr: 00:26:9e:1c:d3:3f
>
> is there some parameter I can give that tells the vlan driver to
> follow the state of the interface it is attached to?  Having a vlan
> that reports being up all the time even when its underlying interface
> is down is less than useful. It would seem intuitive that a vlan's
> state would follow that of the interface it is attached to.
>
> root@sandbox:/proc/net# cat vlan/eth0.99
> eth0.99  VID: 99         REORDER_HDR: 1  dev->priv_flags: 21
>         total frames received           32
>          total bytes received         4735
>      Broadcast/Multicast Rcvd            0
>
>      total frames transmitted           50
>       total bytes transmitted         3852
>            total headroom inc            0
>           total encap on xmit            0
> Device: eth0
> INGRESS priority mappings: 0:0  1:0  2:0  3:0  4:0  5:0  6:0 7:0
>  EGRESS priority mappings:
> root@sandbox:/proc/net# cat vlan/eth1.99
> eth1.99  VID: 99         REORDER_HDR: 1  dev->priv_flags: 21
>         total frames received            0
>          total bytes received            0
>      Broadcast/Multicast Rcvd            0
>
>      total frames transmitted            0
>       total bytes transmitted            0
>            total headroom inc            0
>           total encap on xmit            0
> Device: eth1
> INGRESS priority mappings: 0:0  1:0  2:0  3:0  4:0  5:0  6:0 7:0
>  EGRESS priority mappings:
>
> root@sandbox:/proc/net# ping 10.1.99.1
> PING 10.1.99.1 (10.1.99.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 10.1.99.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.299 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.99.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.311 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.99.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.325 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.99.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.291 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.99.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=0.308 ms
>
> George
>

But interestingly, mii-tool reports the correct result:

root@sandbox:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.34/Documentation/networking#
mii-tool -v eth1.99

eth1.99: no link
  product info: vendor 00:50:43, model 10 rev 0
  basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
  basic status: no link
  capabilities: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control