On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:33 -0700, Darren Dunham wrote:
> In general, neither link aggregation nor SunTrunking are going to increase
> the bandwidth available to a single stream of data. It's not going to make
> an FTP go faster. The default (are there alternatives with LACP?) is to send
> a single stream down a single link so that there's no issues with
> out-of-order reception.
>
> I would hope that two streams will go faster, though.
>
That may depend on the hashing algorithm used to select the stream. I
would guess that you have a 25% chance of it not going any faster if you
have a trunk made up of 4 100Mbit ports. More streams running increases
the likelihood of gaining additional performance, though.
-- Garrett
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