>> Setting up 802.3ad didn't seem to yield anything more than what a >> single link could provide based on monitoring via iptraf. >> >> Whats your experience with bonding? > > You can't ever get more traffic on an aggregate than what one link > will do to a single host. Specifically, one conversation always flows > over one link, what bonding does is either standby's a link for HA, or > distributes conversations across many to see global throughput as a > higher > value. > > So, no, you won't see "speed" improvements with a tool like iperf in > the > sense I suspect you are trying to see it. > > What you could do is have 8 1gig hosts send/receive nearly 1gig of > data > simultaneously to a single server with a 8 interface aggregate if > setup > appropriately. (Other factors apply, but this is generally how it is) Ah, so the fact the mode 0 being round robin is why I see a gain from a single host. Very cool info, thanks Joseph.