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How to Team two Intel pro/1000 onboard nic's into a 2GB RLB

Asked by: cwiley12

I need to Team two Intel pro/1000 onboard nic's into a 2GB RLB via two trunked ACLP ports on my switch, but the option in the intel pro/1000 setup screan for team with other adapters is grayed out. I cant find any documentation on either the Intel site or the SuperMicro site for resolving the grayed out portion. both nics are enabled, and i have tested both individually to send and receive traffic.

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by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-05 at 08:11:12ID: 20217095

What is the motherboard model ??

 

by: cwiley12Posted on 2007-11-05 at 08:49:37ID: 20217414

supermicro x7dvl-l

 

by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-05 at 09:03:44ID: 20217551

You have accepted my comment but I didn't answer the question. You should ask a moderator to reopen the question until the proper answer is given. Here is the guide how to do that.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp#hi17

 

by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-05 at 09:27:11ID: 20217728

This motherboard has the 82563EB controller chip for the onboard nics. This overview for it states
"Allows easy scaling to multiple LAN ports by teaming with Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapters"
which I read as a separate network adapter added to a pci slot.
http://download.intel.com/design/network/ProdBrf/31414201.pdf

 

by: cwiley12Posted on 2007-11-06 at 05:29:54ID: 20223600

Now i'm at the point where the operation was a success but the patient died.
I was able to team the nics, by first enabling ACLP trunking at the switch. The grayed out portion on the nics dissapaerd and i was able to join the nics into an 802.1ad teaming schema, but they are staying at 1GB not 2GB and now i can not ping in or out, but both nics and the team all register as up up. Diagnostic all say everything is as it should be except no traffic gets in or out. see first sentance. by the way i'm using a linksys 2024p managed switch.

 

by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-06 at 08:58:41ID: 20225416

You may be closer than you think. Check if the NICs are set for auto-negotiation. This would work with the switches LACP.
If it is already using auto-negotiation,  then the switch may have to be set up using Static trunking, and perhaps disabling auto negotiation on the NICS rather than use LACP .

P.S. you still haven't asked a moderator to reopen the question.

 

by: cwiley12Posted on 2007-11-06 at 11:15:28ID: 20226641

I did ask a mod to reopen the question, but they have not responded

 

by: cwiley12Posted on 2007-11-06 at 11:16:51ID: 20226655

The nics are set for auto-negotiate and I set the switch to static trunking, but still no traffic

 

by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-06 at 11:50:33ID: 20226960

Static trunking and disable auto negotiate on the nics. The settings for flow control, duplex mode, and remote fault information will have to be set manually when running without autonegotiate.
If this doesn't work then the Nics probably cannot be teamed without adding a Nic adapter to the motherboard as stated in the 82563EB pdf posted earlier. There is more than likely an issue within the controller or its driver that won't allow this.

 

by: cwiley12Posted on 2007-11-08 at 08:59:06ID: 20242871

Thank you Spark Maker, I really do appreciate all the help and insight. Now i need to see if i can find a dual nic, since my 1U servers are a little shy of slot space, which is why i got dual nic servers. I really hate vapor ware, why the heck cant the spark makers provide what they  advertise.

 

by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-11-08 at 10:14:42ID: 20243544

If you had a single port NIC for the pci slot you could test to see if one of the integrated NICs can team with it. ITeaming may be specific to the Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapters(PCI) as stated in the overview doc.

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