Re: [CentOS] Bonded interfaces - testing

2013-03-25 Thread Dermot
In which case, an appropriate test would be to have several servers push data to one the server while it's interface is un-bonded. We'd anticipate that the results would be under 1000Mbps. Then do the same with the bonded interface and the results would hopefully be more consistently around 1000Mpb

Re: [CentOS] Bonded interfaces - testing

2013-03-25 Thread James Hogarth
> Does anyone have any thoughts? I pasted some details below increase they > have a bearing. > Remember that LACP (802.3ad) uses a hash algorithm (configurable on how it's carried out and whether you use mac addresses, dst/src IPs and ports will vary quite often for optimisation) to pick a physic

[CentOS] Bonded interfaces - testing

2013-03-25 Thread Dermot
Hi, I have 2 servers running CentOS 6.3. Each has four 1gb Ethernet ports. I have bonded all four ports on each server and patched them to the same switch (following the instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces). I have created aggregated trunks for the servers respec