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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:12:42 -0400
From: Sergey Ostrovsky <sostrovs@kns.com>
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To: Bernhard Busch <bbusch@biochem.mpg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding
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Bernhard Busch wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have tried to use ethernet  network interfaces bonding to increase
> peformance.
>
> Bonding is working fine, but the performance is rather poor.
> FTP between 2 machines ( kernel 2.4.4 and 4 port DLink 100Mbit ethernet
> card)
> results in a transfer rate of 3MB/s).

Slightly OT, but :
I had to return my 4 port DLink 10/100Mbit _switch_,
because this piece of junk dropped 50-70% of packets sent.
I'd suggest first to ping for some time and see statistics.

Sergey Ostrovsky.