Am 06.08.2012 19:44, schrieb Rainer Duffner: > > Am 06.08.2012 um 19:22 schrieb Cal Sawyer <cal-s at blue-bolt.com>: > >> In my experience, LAG/LACP won't provide aggregatation, only failover >> and fault tolerance. For link aggregation, you don't need to configure >> the switch ports - just set bonding to mode=6 for balanced >> transmit/receive and plug up the the NICs to a group of ports on the >> switch. However, balance-alb doesn't help with single stream rsync/FTP >> sessions, etc, but helps a lot with concurrent transmits/receives as >> encountered in typical fileserver scenarios. >> > > > On FreeBSD, you don't get 2*1 Gbit from A to B, but 1*1 Gbit from A to B and another 1*1 Gbit from C to B. > "B" being the server with the LAGG interface. > > How is that in CentOS? It is of course the same, as long as we speak about standardized 802.3ad protocol. Alexander