On 4/9/08, Timothy Selivanow <timothy.selivanow at 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 > ___________________________________________________ > < When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure? > > --------------------------------------------------- > \ > \ \ > \ /\ > ( ) > .( o ). > 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