Wednesday 8 July 2015

Configure Network Teaming - RHEL 7

Network teaming is method for linking NIC's together logically to allow for failover or higher throughput. 

RHEL 7 implements network teaming with a small kernel driver and a user space daemon, teamd. The kernel handles network packets efficiently and teamd handles logic and interface processing. Software, called runners, implement load balancing and active-backup logic, such as roundrobin. The following runners are available to teamd:

- broadcast : a simple runner transmits each packet from all ports

- roundrobin : simple runner which transmits packets in a rounf-robin fashion from each port

- activebackup : failover runner which watches for link changes and selects an active port for data transfers

- loadbalance : this runner monitors traffic and uses a hash function to try to reach a perfect balance when selecting ports for packet transmission.

- lacp : implements the 802.3ad Link aggregation control protocol. can use the same transmit port selection possibilities as the loadbalance runner.

Steps:

- Create team interface 
- Assigning the IPv4 or IPv6 attributes of the team interface
- Assign the port interfaces
- Bring the team and port interfaces up/down

Current existing network interfaces are beow, "eno33554984" and "eno50332208" will be the interfaces that will be the ports for the teamed interface.

# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eno16777736: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:14:ef:0e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eno33554984: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:14:ef:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eno50332208: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:14:ef:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
#

- Create team interface:
# nmcli connection add type team con-name team0 ifname team0 config '{"runner": {"name": "activebackup"}}'
Connection 'team0' (b781d554-6d28-4baa-9af8-5f3331acd427) successfully added.
#

'{"runner": {"name": "activebackup"}}' - In this setup i'm using method 'activebackup' 

- Assign IPv4 attributes to team interface.
# nmcli connection modify team0 ipv4.addresses '192.168.229.181/24'
# nmcli connection modify team0 ipv4.method manual

- assign the port interfaces
# nmcli connection add type team-slave con-name team0-port1 ifname eno33554984 master team0
Connection 'team0-port1' (d7ae4a56-4872-4264-8f2f-215742deae92) successfully added.
# nmcli connection add type team-slave con-name team0-port2 ifname eno50332208 master team0
Connection 'team0-port2' (c6755f4b-8071-4294-b3d5-691da53cf264) successfully added.
#

- check the current state of teamed interfaces. 
# ip a show team0
7: team0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
    link/ether 00:0c:29:14:ef:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.229.181/24 brd 192.168.229.255 scope global team0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe14:ef18/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
#

# teamdctl team0 state
setup:
  runner: activebackup
ports:
  eno33554984
    link watches:
      link summary: up
      instance[link_watch_0]:
        name: ethtool
        link: up
  eno50332208
    link watches:
      link summary: up
      instance[link_watch_0]:
        name: ethtool
        link: up
runner:
  active port: eno33554984
#

Ping from your network gateway through the 'team0' interface, and when the 'eno33554984' || 'eno50332208' have been disconnected, you still have no interruptions in the PING. 

how to disconnect one of the interface:
#nmcli device disconnect eno33554984
#teamdctl team0 state
#nmcli device connect eno33554984

- Display team ports of the team0 interface
# teamnl team0 ports

- Display the active port
# teamnl team0 getoption activeport

Thanks

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