Just out of curiosity. If you wanted to bond do you have to ask your network admin to configure a special switch setting for MAC addresses? On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:27 PM, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote: > Timothy Selivanow wrote: > >> >> I've changed the switch out, unfortunately to something that I know >> doesn't support 802.3ad, but I'm still unable to get aggregate link >> bandwidth using mode 0, 2, and 6. I'm using scp to test the bandwidth, >> one machine with one interface, one with two bonded, and one with three >> bonded. No matter the combination of who is sending/receiving the >> files, no increase in throughput. >> >> Would using a x-over cable on two machines, using two interfaces each, >> with 802.3ad (or other mode...) on both hosts work? My inclination is >> that the aggregating protocol needs a shared bus to negotiate, and >> putting each channel on it's own bus (x-over cable) would defeat that... >> > > AFAIK, bonding can not give increased bandwidth between two hosts - the > maximum you can ever get is the bandwidth of one of the links i.e. if you > have a server with say 4 bonded interfaces, any one client can only get a > maximum bandwidth of one of the interfaces on the server. > > I've used 2 bonded (mode 6) Gigabit interfaces on NFS servers and can get > 200+Mbyte/s read speeds using multiple clients > > James Pearson > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080521/04fc9d4d/attachment-0004.html>