On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Koert Kuipers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks! I will post results. What is the recommended way to measure it? (I > am on Centos 5.x) > Use iperf between the hosts that have bonded interface. > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Koert Kuipers <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> we are looking at channel bonding / link aggregation (2 x 1 Gbit/s) on >>> our hadoop slaves. >>> what is the recommended bonding mode? i found some references to mode 4 >>> (802.3ad, hardware based) and to mode 6 (balance-alb, software based) in >>> hadoop mailing lists. >>> thanks! koert >>> >> >> I have configured LACP before and seems to be the standard. Do post your >> results, in general don't expect to see 2 Gbps, you'll probably get around >> 1.5 Gbps or less depending on hardware vendor. >> > >
