Paras pradhan wrote: > Nate, > > Thanks for you input. 802.3ad seems better but I am not in a position to > terminate both links in the same switch or same stack. What about mode 6? I have a NFS cluster running mode 6 with two systems, it works ok, been running for a bit over a year now. Each system has 4 NICs, and 4 IPs(load balancing done mostly via round robin DNS). The systems run CentOS 4.x, they are basically appliances everything comes pre-configured by the vendor. So I can say it can work, and does work when properly configured, though I would not use it myself. The vendor has since moved away from this and is going with 802.3ad for better standards compliance. nate