All trunking/bonding at the switch (eg, LACP) gives only 1 NIC's worth of bandwidth point-to-point, even if your boxes all have multiple NICs. It chooses a NIC at connection initiation (via round-robin, or load, or whatever). But once the TCP connection is established, there is no load-balancing --
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Michael Segel <[email protected]>wrote: > > Usually the port bonding is done at a lower level so that you and your > applications see this as a single port. So you don't have to worry about > load balancing between the ports. > (Or am I missing something?) > > thx > > -Mike > > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:00:30 -0700 > > Subject: Re: decommissioning node woes > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > > > Unfortunately this doesn't help much because it is hard to get the ports > to > > balance the load. > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Michael Segel < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > With a 1GBe port, you could go 100Mbs for the bandwidth limit. > > > If you bond your ports, you could go higher. > > > >
