Hi - I'm trying to setup link aggregation on my dual LAN ports on the ASROCK C226 Motherboard connected to a Netgear Nighthawk Modem. My question is what bonding mode do I choose under eth0 since both my ports are on the board and I am not using a switch or any PCI NIC's. Thanks.  

Edited November 3, 20205 yr by abhi.ko

Two mode

 

balance-tlb: Outgoing traffic is load balanced, but incoming only uses a single interface. The driver will change the MAC address on the NIC when sending, but incoming always remains the same.

 

balance-alb: Both sending and receiving frames are load balanced using the change MAC address trick.

 

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/linux_unix/article.php/3850636/Understanding-NIC-Bonding-with-Linux.htm

Thank You!

@Vr2Io Thank you for the quick response, that article was helpful. Working on this today.

So just trying to reconfirm that the steps are right:

1. Enable port aggregation on the router - screenshot of mine is below.
2. Stop docker and VM's in unRaid
3. Change network settings for eth0 and enable bonding with members eth1
4. select bonding mode to balance-alb
5. leave all other settings as is, click apply and done

 

 

Questions:

1. Do I change the MTU settings to anything higher than 1500 (9000 maybe)? My ethernet controller says jumbo frames supported, hence the question.
2. Anything else I am missing.

All guidance is appreciated.

Thanks.

Your router support LACP 802.3ad, so you should use that mode instead balance-xxx.

 

For MTU you can try other then 1500 if all equipment support,  but I not recommend due to sometimes got strange problem / performance.

Perfect - Thank You!

It is all good now, aggregation is setup and it works. Thanks @Vr2Iofor the help. 

I know that this is an old topic but I am curios to know if you found the solution with balance-alb or just activated on your router LACP and you leave all settings in Unraid untouched?