Hello Ben,

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 10:44:28 PM, you wrote:


BR> You can aggregate Ethernet; however this may not deliver the performance
BR> you expect.  If you take 4x 1Gbps links and aggregate them you won't
BR> have a single 4Gbps link in the traditional sense... rather, you'll have
BR> 4 links over which traffic is balanced.  If you have only a single TCP
BR> stream you'll still be limited to the throughput of a single link.  For
BR> the purposes of iSCSI this may be overcome by using multiple-sessions,
BR> though I haven't tested this.

Actually when you do a link aggregation you should get 4Gb/s even for
single tcp connection (putting other possible bottlenecks aside).
If you use interface groups then you right, each tcp connection will
go out using only one link.

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 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                                       http://milek.blogspot.com

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