Anyone have 802.3ad link aggregation working on a GT-AC5300?

[RMerlin]

There's 3rd party software but no indication if the problem has been resolved. https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/ My router wouldn't take it. Maybe someone else will have better luck.

That's because the GT-AC5300 is not supported...

 

[drabisan]

I just had my GT-AC5300 running as router with AiMesh beta software published yesterday.
And it was the perfect moment to do 802.3ad with my Synology.
I just enable 802.3ad on Synology and plug the cables on port 5&6 on Asus.
Synology is reporting 2000mbps and Asus start showing plenty of traffic on bond0. I can slightly exceed 1gbps as Synology is not a very powerful model.
I don't see any particular errors on Asus, but what exactly should I check to make sure the bond is healthy?
Just looking at Synology everything looks right, but I would like to know what can I check on Asus?

 

[Nahuel]

I just had my GT-AC5300 running as router with AiMesh beta software published yesterday.
And it was the perfect moment to do 802.3ad with my Synology.
I just enable 802.3ad on Synology and plug the cables on port 5&6 on Asus.
Synology is reporting 2000mbps and Asus start showing plenty of traffic on bond0. I can slightly exceed 1gbps as Synology is not a very powerful model.
I don't see any particular errors on Asus, but what exactly should I check to make sure the bond is healthy?
Just looking at Synology everything looks right, but I would like to know what can I check on Asus?

Hi!
How did you set up the bonding? As Destination or Source?

What are the differences? I can not find any information about this.

 

[drabisan]

I presumed it's how the hash is calculated and I chose source as that makes more sense in my case.
But it's nothing but an assumption, can't find any documentation about what Asus means with those options, but it looks like it's working. I'm exceeding 1G from a wired laptop plus a wired one.

 

[Jrac86]

I presumed it's how the hash is calculated and I chose source as that makes more sense in my case.
But it's nothing but an assumption, can't find any documentation about what Asus means with those options, but it looks like it's working. I'm exceeding 1G from a wired laptop plus a wired one.

I have been trying to get link aggregation to work with my synology and have had no luck. The synology keeps giving me an error - Failed to establish IEEE 802.3ad connection. I am running the most recent beta firmware 9.0.0.4.382_19612. Do you have any other suggestions for me? Did you get any error when the Bonding Policy was set to default instead of Source Bonding? Do you have jumbo frames enabled? Was there anything on the synology that needed to be done besides creating the Bond in the network settings?

 

[drabisan]

I only had the policy default for minutes/an hour and I saw nothing odd in the logs.
It simply worked. I double checked now and I have a static IP assigned to bond. I set it on because I wanted to make sure all port forwarding will work with no additional settings.
No, no jumbo frame, I don't need it.

Synology was on a different port than 5-6, I configured bond on it and move the cable to 5 and add another cable to 6. It was that simple.

 

[Jrac86]

I only had the policy default for minutes/an hour and I saw nothing odd in the logs.
It simply worked. I double checked now and I have a static IP assigned to bond. I set it on because I wanted to make sure all port forwarding will work with no additional settings.
No, no jumbo frame, I don't need it.

Synology was on a different port than 5-6, I configured bond on it and move the cable to 5 and add another cable to 6. It was that simple.

Sorry for all the questions, but what synology model do you have? And you selected the IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation option on the synology bond right? I am grasping at straws here...

 

[drabisan]

214+
Yes

 

[Jrac86]

I have been in contact with Asus support. After running several telnet commands, they pretty much confirmed that something was wrong with the router. Essentially, there were settings missing in the nvram that are used for the link aggregation. I had also purchased a second unit and it too had the same issue (without any firmware updates being applied). They do not know how the settings were missing, but have assured me that they are adding a fix to the next beta firmware release. It seems like some units were affected since some people in this thread have link aggregation working. For any of those who do not have link aggregation working, this is likely the same issue.

 

[drabisan]

Forum acts funny with agresive moderation.
I got an email notification 1h ago about your post. But the post was not on the forum yet.
Few minutes ago I got a new notification about the same post. And now the post appears ;-)

What you're are saying it's a hilarious mistake by Asus. At best!
They "forgot" to activate 802.3ad on some batches? And that's to be corrected in software?
Ummmm..not impossible, but very very weird!

 

[Jrac86]

Asus support just confirmed to me that it was indeed a factory production issue with setting incorrect nvram values. According to them, the new beta will fix it.

 

[Jrac86]

I can confirm that this beta firmware fixes the link aggregation:
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/C18883E0461945CF958B438590DF89BEY

 

[Maahfu]

I can confirm that this beta firmware fixes the link aggregation:
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/C18883E0461945CF958B438590DF89BEY

2nd this

 

[sfx2000]

I just had my GT-AC5300 running as router with AiMesh beta software published yesterday.
And it was the perfect moment to do 802.3ad with my Synology.
I just enable 802.3ad on Synology and plug the cables on port 5&6 on Asus.
Synology is reporting 2000mbps and Asus start showing plenty of traffic on bond0. I can slightly exceed 1gbps as Synology is not a very powerful model.

That's pretty much what would be expected... it's because of how ethernet works - each packet has to use it's own port/cable...

But hey, by doing LAG, at least you've doubled your capacity... same BW though..

 

[tasansal]

I am happy to report that link aggregation on GT-AC5300 is now working with the AiMesh software. I am running the latest (3.0.0.4.384_20308). Hardware is GT-AC5300 and Synology DS918+.