LACP Etherchannel to a Dell server

[Andy White]

Hello,

I have configured 2 Intel nics on a Dell server as a 802.3ad team and I need to configure the switch end too.  The ports need to be in VLAN 1028, but I think I have configured this wrong, should it look like this?

interface GigabitEthernet3/0/25
 description BACKUPS VLAN 1028
 switchport access vlan 1028
 flowcontrol receive on
 channel-protocol lacp
 channel-group 6 mode active
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interface GigabitEthernet3/0/26
 description BACKUPS VLAN 1028
 switchport access vlan 1028
 flowcontrol receive on
 channel-protocol lacp
 channel-group 6 mode active

The port channel is created, then I just add the vlan:

interface Port-channel6
 switchport access vlan 1028
 flowcontrol receive on

Thanks

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

Your config looks correct.

do a "show ether-cha summary" to see the ports in this portchannel.

HTH

[Andy White]

Hello, I've configured it that way now and I can ping the IP of the server now, but I don't get use of the full 2gb bandwidth from both NICs. Maybe it is my testing method, but I'm using iperf and I have SNMP running on the 2 NICs and the virtual team IP that I had to create so I can get almost realtime bandwidth info. When I use iperf it seems to only flat line 1 of the NICs and the other is left idle. Any ideas?

[Ton V Engelen]

Hi

if you use the same addresses and session information, you always hash to the same port in the channel.

Check this link:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/etherchannel/12023-4.html

[glen.grant]

   Thats not the way etherchannel works .  For any given network conversation between client and the server it will flow down a single port in the channel so the max you will ever get for a single conversation is 1 gig .  I