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    NAS: sporadic momentary connection drops

    My new suspicion is that it has to do with LACPDUs and mismatched timers. It makes a lot of sense and could cause the LAG to flap. Interestingly, the default in the Dell / FTOS is the "fast" timeout of 1 second, yet they recommend a slow timeout. Though somehow switching to the slow timeout...
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    NAS: sporadic momentary connection drops

    We have a pair of s4810 (OS 9.14) switches in a stack. (Core switches in an isolated layer 2 LAN) A Synology SA3600 NAS server with an Intel XL710-QDA2 NIC, is connected via 802.3ad, via 2 x 40GbE SQFP's. For many months now, the NAS connection drops for 1 second, every 3-90 hours. (Only...
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    Using a server PSU with a desktop motherboard... which keeps killing it

    After lots of hard work, we built a rackmounted Threadripper workstation with Thunderbolt connectivity (those were the 3 requirements we aimed to nail). In fact, I had hired a specialist company to help build it for us..... and we've still got problems, Houston. The mobo is a Gigabyte TRX40...