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Link Aggregation with Fedora and a Dell switch

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Brazen

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I'm setting up a Fedora 11 box connected with 2 nics to a dell switch. I have four other identical boxes with WMWare ESX Server on them that links the nics just fine with 802.3ad link aggregation.

I had just previously tried with Debian on the box and it exhibited the same behavior as Fedora. This computer also previously had VMWare ESX Server on it and the link aggregation worked fine (but I do have to change a setting to "route based on ip hash" in ESX Server).

So now with this Fedora install... I can apparently communicate from the box. A "ping www.google.com" correctly resolves the dns address and I get 100% ping responses. However, if I try to ping from a workstation to the box, I get nothing. Likewise, I can not ssh into the box. This is connecting to a Dell PowerConnect 5324 switch.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
 
Well you're obviously sending and receiving if you can ping by name from the box. Is the LAG actually up and active? Try disconnecting individual nics to see if you've got a driver problem
 
Well after some playing around, it seems NetworkManager was breaking this. I unchecked just about everything in package customization during installation so I have a text-only system and did not realize NetworkManager was even installed.

After uninstalling NetworkManager and doing "chkconfig network on" it seems to be working fine. Now I just need to get vlans working on top of this and then bridging working on top of the vlans 😀
 
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