[CentOS] bond0 performance issues in 5.6

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Sun Jul 10 11:43:27 UTC 2011


>   I've got two gigabit ethernet interfaces bonded in CentOS 5.6. I've 
>set "miimode=1000" and I've tried "mode=" 0, 4 and 6. I've not been able 
>to get better than 112MB/sec, which is the same as the non-bonded 
>interfaces.

Most people misunderstand bonding/link aggregation. A single conversation
travels over one link to avoid tcp reordering, link aggregation helps with
multiple conversations if setup in non FT modes only.



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