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General Discussion / Re: LAGG Router to L3 Switch - no VLANs

« on: December 19, 2023, 06:07:05 pm »

You have a 1Gb Internet uplink and everything is 1Gb or 2.5Gb local, what optimizations are you looking for ?

Internet usage near/at 1G and router related traffic in parallel - 2 ports if I'm understanding this.

LAGG's are for redundancy and load sharing, a 2x 1Gb LAGG doesn't transform into a 2Gb uplink, but just 2x 1Gb. As your slowest LAN speed (1Gb) already matches your Internet speed (1Gb), _nothing_ is going faster, just more redundant.

I understand no one PC will have 2G - but would not a 2 port LAGG allow load sharing - as the LAGG would allow  2G of traffic from a L2 switch to the L3 switch instead of just 1G if NOT using LAGG.

I'm a noob at this so please excuse if some of my terminology is incorrect.

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General Discussion / LAGG Router to L3 Switch - no VLANs

« on: December 19, 2023, 04:42:14 pm »

Looking for advice/comments on installation.

I'm replacing my existing simple Home network.  I have the following equipment (over kill for now - but available in future)

1G WAN, VP2404 4 port 2.5G Router running Opnsense.  L3 managed switch, 4 L2 managed switches - All switches have 1G ports.

Router currently uses 2 ports - WAN and LAN.

I am interested in optimal access to the Internet (WAN - Router).

Does it make sense to make a 2 or 3 port LAGG from Router to L3 switch --- NO VLANS being used?

If YES - should the LAGG be 2 ports and leave the LAN port on the Router Open or use a 3 port LAGG and not have a LAN port on the router?

For through put between switches - should I consider making a 2 port LAGG between the L3 switch and each of the L2 switches?

Thanks

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General Discussion / I killed NEW Opensense - How to FIX

« on: December 12, 2023, 02:23:07 am »

I purchased a new Protectli 2420 with OpnSense installed.  Since my home network is currently a 192.168.1.xx network I wanted to change the LAN IP.  I logged in using the Web interface and JUST changed the LAN IP to 192.168.10.1 -- I did not switch the LAN and WAN ports and I did NOT think about changing the LAN DHCP.

I tried to log into the new IP - and OpnSense did not reply.  I found comments that stated my issue was I did not set the LAN's DHCP when I changed the IP address.

I logged into the console as a Single User and performed Selection #2 - "Set Interface IP Address".  I set the IP back to 192.168.1.1 - 24, set DHCP from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.199, set HTTP, and reset Web Gui - I did nothing to IP6 stuff.

When the system configures - it throws an error stating that line 233 of /user/local/etc/inc/system.inc is empty.

I've performed a CMOS reset per the Protectli tech support.  I performed a Factory Reset via the Console Menu (Same menu that I attempted to change the IP).

I'm NOT a linux guy - little to no knowledge.

I tried to nl the file system.inc (full path) from the console menu but that did not work hopping I would get an idea of the error.

THIS has got to be a common error as I can't be the only dumb shit that just changed the IP address and not the DHCP settings!!!

Any comments on how to fix or what to do?

Thanks