25 aug 2009 kl. 18.50 skrev John A. Sullivan III: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:28 +0200, Olle E. Johansson wrote: >> 25 aug 2009 kl. 16.20 skrev Olivier: >> >>> I would be curious to know if bonding 2 Ethernet ports together >>> would help to push the upper limit a bit further ... >>> (by the way, this limit is 11000 channels or 5500 calls, isn't it ? >> >> Yes, this is 11.000 channels. >> >> Bonding is good advice, provided we have a switch that can handle >> that. Gotta find a place to borrow such a switch. >> >> /Olle > You don't necessarily need a switch to support it. One can use alb > mode > in Linux on any old switch and it works reasonably well other than for > some excessive ARP traffic. However, as we found out the hard way > when > building our Nexenta SAN, bonding works very well with many-to-many > traffic but does very little to boost one-to-one network flows. They > will all collapse to the same pair of NICs in most scenarios and, in > the > one mode where they do not, packet sequencing issues will reduce the > bandwidth to much less than the sum of the connections. Take care - > John
That is very good feedback - thanks, John! Which means that my plan B needs to be put in action. Well, I did create a new branch for it yesterday... ;-) /O _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
