FYI, there is a setting that controls how Solaris balances the frames across the links in the aggregation. IP, MAC or round robbin.
Mike On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 01:19 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: > > How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? > > > My memory serves me not worse than google: teaming is one of the > umbrella terms to describe what is implemented by LACP - a means > of representing several hardware links as one logical NIC with > increased reliability and bandwidth. Other vendors call (their > proprietary implementations of) this technology as NIC bonding, > EtherChannels, etc. In Solaris these are known as "aggregations" > (see "dladm create-aggr ..."). > > BEWARE THAT sometimes the boost in bandwidth is not easy to see, > because certain implementations switch connections between a > couple of MAC addresses using one link, and only if you have > lots of different hosts you get more bandwidth on the average - > but a single GbE between a couple of nodes. This is likely a > problem in the storage scenario, at least with one NAS server. > > "Teaming" usually requires support on the switch side and while > many managed switches provide LACP or a proprietary analog of > this protocol across ports in one device, few allow spanning LACP > domains over separate switches (as was touched on earlier in the > thread). > > HTH, > //Jim > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
