One quick note to add here... There are several different kinds of adapter teaming. The simplest kind involves no switch configuration but is also the least effective. It takes advantage of ARP spoofing to load-balance on a per-session or a per-connection basis. For one client talking to one server, it would not help matters at all. It comes in handy when there are multi-point connections, so on the server side you could see some gains if there are multiple users beating up the server at the same time.
A true bonding setup will load balance packet-by-packet and can improve throughput in all scenarios. RM On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:27 +0100, "Oliver Marshall" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi chaps, > > We have a client whose workers do mainly cad based rendering and shovel > massive files around the network (TB files aren't uncommon). Certain > workers need more network throughput than their aging gigabit network can > offer them. > > The options appear to be fibre, though for workstations, and just a > handful, this seems to involved a large setup cost and may be overkill, > and also bonding of ports. I like the last idea as it would allow certain > workstations to bond multiple GB network ports together to get more > throughput. > > Has anyone else done anything similar to this on the workstation end? Any > words of wisdom ? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
