Interesting... My knowledge of ip routing is spotty at best. I was under the impression that the network would view the second ethernet adapter as a completely separate computer. I will try the bonding configuration. Thanks!
-James On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Emmanuel Florac <[email protected]>wrote: > Le Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:47:35 -0700 > James Gao <[email protected]> écrivait: > > > My ultimate goal is to be able to use the full 4 gbps of bandwidth > > connected to the file servers. > > Any ideas? Thanks for you time! > > I suppose you set up your 2 different interfaces on each node in the > same ip network (like 10.0.1.1 and 10.0.1.2). Unfortunately, the way ip > routing works mean that all traffic will go through the first one. > > You should use bonding instead. Aggregate the two interfaces using > balance-rr or balance-alb, and you'll have a virtual 2 Gb interface > instead of 2 1 Gb, that should work much better. > > regards, > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique > | Intellique > | <[email protected]> > | +33 1 78 94 84 02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >
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