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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:34:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Bonding does not help with single stream performance.
You have to have multiple apps generating multiple streams
of data before you'll realize any improvement.
Therefore netpipe is a bad test for what you're doing.