On 4/9/08, Timothy Selivanow timothy.selivanow@virtualxistenz.com wrote:
I'm try to bond a few interfaces together with the hopes of getting increased throughput, and I'm using a cisco Catalyst 2900 as the switch. I've tried using mode 0, 5, and 6 with nothing special on the switch, and mode 4 with some ports "trunked" together (I have a feeling that the "trunking" that the 2900 does is not 802.3ad, as it disabled the ports it saw as redundant), yet xfer speeds always cap out at about 10MB/s.
Has any body accomplished bonding with increased throughput as the goal, with or without (without might be preferable) doing something special on the switch (preferably the afore-mentioned Catalyst 2900, as that is what I have to work with as a non-sactioned side-project ;)?
--Tim ___________________________________________________
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Hi there
As another person with cisco certs that aren't being used i wondered about the port being switched off which sounds like a spanning-tree issue.
/me dredging up heavily repressed stuff from the BCMSN
Certainly the 2900 will support 802.3ad or LACP natively.
i found this which may be of use
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Cisco+Systems+IOS-based+switches-+interface+bonding+and+trunking?t=anon
mike