From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Friesen Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:29:31 -0400 Sender: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D81F64B.11182FB1@nortelnetworks.com> References: <3D80DF4F.5B218F19@mc.com> <20020912.163447.131926830.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" wrote: > > 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. This has always confused me. Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread all the traffic over all the links? This would allow for a single stream to use the full aggregate bandwidth of all bonded links. Chris