Thanks for the reply. You saved me hours of fighting with it.
On 09/09/2018 01:30 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> Keep in mind, bonding nics does not magically give you n+x throughput...
>
> By nature of the technology, there are flow hashes created off
> source/dest mac, ip, or port, that keeps your flows "stuck" to a
> particular computes hash path. So if you have a single tcp connection
> with same source, destination, and port (ie backup or cifs filer
> session), it will NOT balance across multiple pipes, but rather will
> just fill one of n in the link aggregation bundle. There are bond
> settings to control this, but will still ultimately be a limitation
> whether you're talking a linux server or a high-end cisco nexus
> switch. This works great only when you're a service provider with
> lots of little connections to spread out, not so much a few major blasts.
>
> This is a popular misconception among non-networking folks that simply
> bonding multiple circuits gives your more bandwidth, but entirely not
> the case. If you need more than 100mb, you 1gb. If you need more
> than 1gb, you go 10gb, etc. Bonding is more for redundancy than
> throughput imho.
>
> -mb
>
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Jones <retro64xyz@gmail.com
> <mailto:retro64xyz@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> You are still limited by the pipe and the sending/receiving box.
> It’s probably not gonna work like you think. You will most likely
> slow your connection down.
>
> But ...
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/53499/how-to-merge-multiple-internet-connections-into-one
> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/53499/how-to-merge-multiple-internet-connections-into-one>
>
> Try it out and report back.
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Jim <jim.nantz15@comcast.net
> <mailto:jim.nantz15@comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>> My computer has 100 megabit ethernet on the motherboard. I've
>> disabled that so I can use the gigabit ethernet card I added. If
>> I were to bond those adapters, could i get 1.1 gigabit? How
>> would I do this?
>>
>> thanks
>>
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