From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 802.3ad bonding for increasing link throughput
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:23:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110810132328.GA14311@hiwaay.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E427499.8060108@cyconix.com>
Once upon a time, Tom Brown <sa212+glibc@cyconix.com> said:
> So, under what circumstances would a user actually use 802.3ad mode to
> "increase" link throughput, rather than just for redundancy? Are there
> any circumstances in which a single file, for example, could be
> transferred at multiple-NIC speed? The 3 hashing options are:
It isn't going to increase the rate for a single stream. However, few
setups have only a single TCP stream going across a segment, so this is
still quite useful for real-world setups to increase the total
throughput.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-10 12:07 Use of 802.3ad bonding for increasing link throughput Tom Brown
2011-08-10 13:23 ` Chris Adams [this message]
2011-08-10 13:50 ` Simon Farnsworth
2011-08-10 17:46 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-08-25 9:35 ` Simon Horman
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