On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:28:37AM +0800, Jason Chue wrote:
> On 16 November 2010 02:06, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm speaking a little outside of my comfort zone, but based on my
> > understanding, LACP (802.3ad) generally doesn't provide any increase in
> > throughput for a single stream. The idea is to provide fault tolerance, and
> > provide more bandwidth for multiple streams over multiple hosts--but any
> > single stream is usually going to be using only one link. My understanding
> > is that most switches select which link in the bundle to use based on some
> > math on source MAC address.
> >
>
> I understand that LACP provides redundacy and more multiple stream bandwidth
> from other PCs but I'm looking more for throughput between the NAS and the
> work machine.
Correct.
> > If you're running Windows, you're also going to want to make sure that both
> > sides are SMB2 capable--ie: Vista/Server 2008 or newer. Whereas speeds over
> > about 50 or 60MB/s are uncommon (but not unseen) over SMB1, I regularly get
> > north of 115MB/s between SMB2-capable boxes, even over crummy home grade
> > switches and Realtek NICs. Most non-Windows SMB implementations are still
> > running SMB1, with SMB2 support still immature in projects such as SAMBA.
> >
> My HTPC runs W7 Ultimate and the NAS / file server runs Server 2008 R2. How
> do you make sure the connections are SMB2? This is done automatically,
> correct?
Should be automatic.
--
Bryan G. Seitz
