any problems with 9.31 -> 9.10 in LAGG/10GbE network?

[VictorR]

I saw one post in a larger thread where someone had a problem. Although, he did not go into depth what it was. or, did anyone respond to him.

I have a production NAS on a 10GbE LAN that I am looking to upgrade this weekend.

 

[cyberjock]

So upgrade and see if it works. If not roll back to the previous boot environment. :P

 

[VictorR]

So upgrade and see if it works. If not roll back to the previous boot environment. :p

Oh, I can just imagine all these guys pacing around asking when they can get back to work while I fumble about

 

[dlavigne]

Only issue I've heard is that it won't work if the switch is using passive LACP.

 

[VictorR]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a swing tomorrow morning

 

[VictorR]

Well, that was a bad idea. Rebooted our NAS, forgetting that I had the update waiting to install
LAGG is down and does not work

[Follow up]

Ok, after accidentally bringing our company to a screeching halt today for 45 minutes, I stumbled across the "FAQ: Upgrading from 9.3 to 9.10", which states:

Q: I upgraded to 9.10 and my LACP (lagg) interface stopped working. It worked great in 9.3! HELP!
A: LACP links actually only "sort of" worked in FreeBSD 9 - they would misbehave in odd and difficult to diagnose ways when one of the physical links failed. In FreeBSD 10 (and hence 9.10), Active LACP is now enforced so that there is a proper heartbeat and the robustness of the link can be assured. Re-configure your switch for Active LACP and your lagg will work again.

Switching from "static LACP" to "active LACP" on our Netgear XS728T 10GbE switch, everything works. In fact, LAGG(w/ kernel tweaks 45 Drives sent me) far more stable and we are getting read/write speeds approx 100-200 MB/s faster(740MB/s-940MB/s) to all clients on the network with streaming video.