Hello all,
As this is my first post here after lurking for about a year I have to say its good to have finally joined the discussion.
I recently got a Powerconnect 5324 to replace a 2748 that I was using in my home network. After configuring everything I connected my fileserver running Windows Server 2008 R2 standard with 2x Realtek NICs in a LACP team. I configured ports 3 and 4 on the switch for LACP, and setup a LAG for those two. Everything seemed to work just fine until I attempted to move a 4GB file from my server onto my desktop and noticed that the transfer was going at about 70MB/sec instead of the 110MB/sec I am used to. I unteamed the adapters and disabled the LACP and LAG on the switch, and tried the transfer again. This time it was back to the normal 110MB/sec. I setup the team again, back down to 70MB/sec. I tried on both desktops, and both my laptops which have a mix of realtek, boradcom, intel, and nVidia NICs in them to see if it was a driver issue and all clients returned the same data when trying to pull a group of test files. At this point I am unable to figure out if the issue is the switch or with the NICs as I don't have the old switch to test this out with.
NIC 1: Realtek 8169
NIC 2: Realtek 8168C
I am using the 7.011 drivers on both adapters. To team I am using the Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic utility provided by the manufacture of the motherboard. I also thought it could have been a flow control issue on the switch, so I teamed my desktop (2x realtek NICs on an eVGA X58 SLI board) yet still only about 70MB/sec.
The second issue I have been having is when plugging in a new device it takes about 60 seconds to acquire DHCP from my router (Linksys WRT310N running DD-WRT). It will eventually connect and after that there are no connection issues, I was just wondering if this is standard with a layer 2 switch or did I setup the config wrong somewhere.
As this is my first post here after lurking for about a year I have to say its good to have finally joined the discussion.
I recently got a Powerconnect 5324 to replace a 2748 that I was using in my home network. After configuring everything I connected my fileserver running Windows Server 2008 R2 standard with 2x Realtek NICs in a LACP team. I configured ports 3 and 4 on the switch for LACP, and setup a LAG for those two. Everything seemed to work just fine until I attempted to move a 4GB file from my server onto my desktop and noticed that the transfer was going at about 70MB/sec instead of the 110MB/sec I am used to. I unteamed the adapters and disabled the LACP and LAG on the switch, and tried the transfer again. This time it was back to the normal 110MB/sec. I setup the team again, back down to 70MB/sec. I tried on both desktops, and both my laptops which have a mix of realtek, boradcom, intel, and nVidia NICs in them to see if it was a driver issue and all clients returned the same data when trying to pull a group of test files. At this point I am unable to figure out if the issue is the switch or with the NICs as I don't have the old switch to test this out with.
NIC 1: Realtek 8169
NIC 2: Realtek 8168C
I am using the 7.011 drivers on both adapters. To team I am using the Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic utility provided by the manufacture of the motherboard. I also thought it could have been a flow control issue on the switch, so I teamed my desktop (2x realtek NICs on an eVGA X58 SLI board) yet still only about 70MB/sec.
The second issue I have been having is when plugging in a new device it takes about 60 seconds to acquire DHCP from my router (Linksys WRT310N running DD-WRT). It will eventually connect and after that there are no connection issues, I was just wondering if this is standard with a layer 2 switch or did I setup the config wrong somewhere.