awediohead
Occasional Visitor
So I bought a Netgear GS116Ev2 about 18 months ago and it stayed in the box until recently as I had to move house and then became far too ill to do anything very much for about a year.
Now I'm feeling a bit better, I've just discovered it doesn't support LACP: The manual states:
The switch does not support IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation or Link Aggregation
Control Protocol (LACP) groups but supports manual static LAGs only.
My router running OPNsense does support LACP and so does my Unraid server, so I'm a bit peeved that I bought a switch that doesn't.
My question is: Does this matter? What does it mean I can and can't do?
In OPNsense the options for LAG protocol are LACP, FAILOVER, FEC, LOADBALANCE and ROUNDROBIN so - just out of interest - which of these would work best with the manual static LAG the switch does? I assume either Loadbalance or Roundrobin?
What's going to be much more useful (because our internet is only around 70 Mbps down) is a LAG between the switch and my server which is running Unraid and has a spare 4 x 1000Mbps interface which I'd thought of splitting into two LAGs :-one to pass through to VMs and the other to handle streaming from Plex which could easily be three simultaneous HD streams and lossless audio over the LAN
cheers
Now I'm feeling a bit better, I've just discovered it doesn't support LACP: The manual states:
The switch does not support IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation or Link Aggregation
Control Protocol (LACP) groups but supports manual static LAGs only.
My router running OPNsense does support LACP and so does my Unraid server, so I'm a bit peeved that I bought a switch that doesn't.
My question is: Does this matter? What does it mean I can and can't do?
In OPNsense the options for LAG protocol are LACP, FAILOVER, FEC, LOADBALANCE and ROUNDROBIN so - just out of interest - which of these would work best with the manual static LAG the switch does? I assume either Loadbalance or Roundrobin?
What's going to be much more useful (because our internet is only around 70 Mbps down) is a LAG between the switch and my server which is running Unraid and has a spare 4 x 1000Mbps interface which I'd thought of splitting into two LAGs :-one to pass through to VMs and the other to handle streaming from Plex which could easily be three simultaneous HD streams and lossless audio over the LAN
cheers