On Mon, 11.04.2011 at 12:00:39 +0200, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > after testing severals loadbalancing (LACP) types with Cisco, we saw, > that we never get more than 112MB/s with two network cards and iperf. > > So, we tested without loadbalancing, 4 Clients (iperf -f M -c <ip>) and > two target IPs. Every IP has his own 1Gb/s network card. > On the end, two clients had a connection to IP 1 and the second two to > IP 2. > > First we used the two onboard NICs and then, one onboard and one > external NIC, but without success. We never get more then 112MB/s > > All are connected through a Cisco Catalyst WS-X4515. > > The mainboard is a Intel S3420GP.
Are the NICs PCI or PCIe? If the former, IIRC the PCI bus bandwidth maxes out at 133MB/s so that might explain your numbers. If your NICs are PCIe, I have no helpful clues, sorry. Uli _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
