bonding

[Jim]

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 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:retro64xyz at 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 at comcast.net
>     <mailto:jim.nantz15 at 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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