Re: bonded active-backup ethernet-wifi drops packets

["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>]

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On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 14:57 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have an active-backup bonded connection on a 5.1.6 kernel where the
> slaves are an Ethernet interface and a wifi interface.  The goal is
> to
> have network transparent (i.e. same and IP address on both
> interfaces)
> interface which takes advantage of high-speed and low-latency when it
> can be physically plugged into the wired network but have portability
> when unplugged through WiFi.
> 
> It all works, mostly.  :-/
> 
> I find that even when the primary interface, being the Ethernet
> interface is plugged in and active, the bonded interface will drop
> packets periodically.
> 
> If I down the bonded interface and plumb the Ethernet interface
> directly, not as a slave of the bonded interface, no such packet
> dropping occurs.
> 
> My measure of packet dropping, is by observing the output of "sudo
> ping
> -f <ip_address>.  In less than a few minutes even, on the bonded
> interface, even with the Ethernet interface as the active slave, I
> will
> have a long string of dots indicating pings that were never
> replied.  On the unbonded Ethernet interface, no dots, even when
> measured over many days.
> 
> My bonding config:
> 
> $ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
> Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
> 
> Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
> Primary Slave: enp0s31f6 (primary_reselect always)
> Currently Active Slave: enp0s31f6
> MII Status: up
> MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
> Up Delay (ms): 0
> Down Delay (ms): 0
> 
> Slave Interface: enp0s31f6
> MII Status: up
> Speed: 1000 Mbps
> Duplex: full
> Link Failure Count: 0
> Permanent HW addr: 0c:54:15:4a:b2:0d
> Slave queue ID: 0
> 
> Slave Interface: wlp2s0
> MII Status: up
> Speed: Unknown
> Duplex: Unknown
> Link Failure Count: 1
> Permanent HW addr: 0c:54:15:4a:b2:0d
> Slave queue ID: 0
> 
> Current interface config/stats:
> 
> $ ifconfig bond0
> bond0: flags=5187<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MASTER,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>         inet 10.75.22.245  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast
> 10.75.22.255
>         inet6 fe80::ee66:b8c9:d55:a28f  prefixlen 64  scopeid
> 0x20<link>
>         inet6 2001:123:ab:123:d36d:5e5d:acc8:e9bc  prefixlen
> 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
>         ether 0c:54:15:4a:b2:0d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
>         RX packets 1596206  bytes 165221404 (157.5 MiB)
>         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>         TX packets 1590552  bytes 162689350 (155.1 MiB)
>         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
> 
> Devices:
> 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection
> (2) I219-LM (rev 31)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275
> (rev 78)
> 
> Happy to provide any other useful information.
> 
> Any ideas why the dropping, only when using the bonded interface?

Wondering if I have the wrong list with this question.  Is there a list
where this question would be more on-topic or focused?

Perhaps I didn't provide enough information?  I am happy to provide
whatever is needed.  I just don't know what more is needed at this
point.

Cheers,
b.


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