On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 01:13 -0700, Marco Kuehn wrote:
> I also tried multiple streams, with ftp or netperf, but from one server 
> X4200-1 to server X4200-2 the
> performance did not increase. All streams can only saturate one NIC.
> With multiple streams from server X4200-1 to server X4200-2 and vice versa 
> both aggregated NICs
> are saturated.
> 
> There is no increase when streams are transfered in one direction ! Is this 
> correct ?

Perhaps the load balancing/spreading is occurring based on MAC address
or IP address, without regard to TCP or UDP port numbers?

If this is true, then yes, you'll multiple involved hosts (or
bidirectional traffic) to saturate more NICs.

        -- Garrett
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