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home_server:home_server_setup:network_setup [2023-10-29 Sun wk43 12:47] – [Archived Network Setups] baumkphome_server:home_server_setup:network_setup [2023-10-29 Sun wk43 12:56] (current) – [Full Network Setup] baumkp
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-{{tag>network interface netplan nic setup loopback eth ethernet bridge bond networkd linux ubuntu debian setup command}}+{{tag>network interface netplan nic setup loopback eth ethernet bridge bond networkd linux debian setup command}}
 =====Network Setup===== =====Network Setup=====
  
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 Wifi quoted speeds are particularly bogus / optimistic. The quoted speed is usually the best possible speed achievable. Wifi bandwidth is often shared with many simultaneous users, with each n user only often getting at best a 1/n share of bandwidth. There are also latency and interference issues with Wifi that can affect performance. Wired LAN ethernet connection tend to provide more reliable consistent performance. That being said Wifi is convenient and in most, but certainly not all, cases fast enough.++++ Wifi quoted speeds are particularly bogus / optimistic. The quoted speed is usually the best possible speed achievable. Wifi bandwidth is often shared with many simultaneous users, with each n user only often getting at best a 1/n share of bandwidth. There are also latency and interference issues with Wifi that can affect performance. Wired LAN ethernet connection tend to provide more reliable consistent performance. That being said Wifi is convenient and in most, but certainly not all, cases fast enough.++++
 =====Full Network Setup===== =====Full Network Setup=====
-As of 2021 instead of bonding my server I have installed a 2.5Gb/s ethernet card in my mainserver, backup server and main desktop computers. I have purchased a 5 ports 2.5Gb/s switch.  My 2 home home Wifi access points (APs) are connected to the 2.5Gb/s switch too.  I have had these older Wifi APs since 2014, Netgear EX6200/AC1200 and they still serve my home well. They each have 5 x 1Gb/s ethernet ports, for which 1 is used to connect to the upstream switch. As much of my home network equipment is connected by CAT 6 ethernet cable the dual  APs are not very stretched.  I have been luck to avoid the whole Wifi mesh to enable adequate Wifi coverage, which is clearly inferior to the cabled system I have. I researched purchasing upgraded Wifi6 APs, but those with a 2.5Gb/s ethernet port (or better) are still unreasonably expensive. The 5GB/s Ethernet cards and switches are not readily available. The 10Gb/s cards and switches are still much more expensive and consume significantly more power at 10Gb/s connection, meaning operating costs are probably also adversely affected.\\+As of 2021 instead of bonding my server I have installed a 2.5Gb/s ethernet card in my mainserver, and backup server. My current main desktop computer comes with 2.5Gb/s standard. I original purchased a 5 ports 2.5Gb/s switch, but upgraded to an 8 port version.  My 2 home home Wifi 6 access points (APs) are connected to the 2.5Gb/s switch too with 2.5Gb/s Ethernet ports and have 4 x 4 Gb/s ports downstream.  Last year (2022) I upgraded from older Wifi APs since 2014, Netgear EX6200/AC1200. They each have 5 x 1Gb/s ethernet ports, for which 1 is used to connect to the upstream switch. As much of my home network equipment is connected by CAT 6 ethernet cable the dual  APs are not very stretched.  I have been lucky to avoid the whole Wifi mesh to enable adequate Wifi coverage, which is clearly inferior to the cabled system I have. The 5GB/s Ethernet cards and switches are not readily available. The 10Gb/s cards and switches are still much more expensive and consume significantly more power at 10Gb/s connection, meaning operating costs are probably also adversely affected.\\
  
-I have not tested the performance of the 2.5Gb/s ethernet system, in all honesty I have not noticed much difference. This is perhaps not unexpected as my in eternet connection is ~ 30Mb/s down and 12Mb/s up.  My main server primary storage is 3.5" spinning disk with peak performance at best <2Gb/s and sustain and average performance much lower than this. These hard disks are limited to individual speed performance, no interleaving raid to speed thing up.  The operating systems and VMs are on SSDs / NVM with much higher achievable transfer rate and should improved overall system performance, but are not used for normal server storage purposes, hence the speed advantage here are not generally restricted by the network speed.+I have not tested the performance of the 2.5Gb/s ethernet system, in all honesty I have not noticed much difference. This is perhaps not unexpected as my in Ethernet connection is ~ 65Mb/s down and 17Mb/s up.  My main server primary storage is 3.5" spinning disk with peak performance at best <2Gb/s and sustain and average performance much lower than this. These hard disks are limited to individual speed performance, no interleaving raid to speed thing up.  The operating systems and VMs are on SSDs / NVM with much higher achievable transfer rate and should improved overall system performance, but are not used for normal server storage purposes, hence the speed advantage here are not generally restricted by the network speed.
  
 This is the setup for my new server with 4 built in Intel NICs, with Ubuntu 20.04 To reduce performance reduction due to limited Ethernet bandwidth using only one NIC I propose to use 2 NICs in bonded configuration and also use bridging to allow server virtual machine access to the NICs and also use the remaining 2 NICs effectively as a switch. This is the setup for my new server with 4 built in Intel NICs, with Ubuntu 20.04 To reduce performance reduction due to limited Ethernet bandwidth using only one NIC I propose to use 2 NICs in bonded configuration and also use bridging to allow server virtual machine access to the NICs and also use the remaining 2 NICs effectively as a switch.
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 Edit the network configuration file: ''/etc/netplan/interfaces.yaml'' as follows: Edit the network configuration file: ''/etc/netplan/interfaces.yaml'' as follows:
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 <code yaml> <code yaml>
 network: network:
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   *''sudo netplan try'' To try a new neplan configuration with automatic roll back.   *''sudo netplan try'' To try a new neplan configuration with automatic roll back.
   *''journalctl -u systemd-networkd'' to check the networkd log   *''journalctl -u systemd-networkd'' to check the networkd log
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 =====Full VM Network Setup===== =====Full VM Network Setup=====
 Moving back to Debian I am also moving away from netplan back to interfaces. Moving back to Debian I am also moving away from netplan back to interfaces.