From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Adams Subject: Re: Use of 802.3ad bonding for increasing link throughput Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:23:28 -0500 Message-ID: <20110810132328.GA14311@hiwaay.net> References: <4E427499.8060108@cyconix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: netdev Return-path: Received: from fly.hiwaay.net ([216.180.54.1]:37962 "EHLO fly.hiwaay.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857Ab1HJNX3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:23:29 -0400 Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id p7ADNSpq014064 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:23:28 -0500 Received: (from cmadams@localhost) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly-submit) id p7ADNSPe014045 for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:23:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E427499.8060108@cyconix.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Once upon a time, Tom Brown 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 Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.