netdev - Re: Use of 802.3ad bonding for increasing link throughput

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Message-ID: <20110810132328.GA14311@hiwaay.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:23:28 -0500
From:	Chris Adams <cmadams@...aay.net>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 802.3ad bonding for increasing link throughput

Once upon a time, Tom Brown <sa212+glibc@...onix.com> said:
> So, under what circumstances would a user actually use 802.3ad mode to 
> "increase" link throughput, rather than just for redundancy? Are there 
> any circumstances in which a single file, for example, could be 
> transferred at multiple-NIC speed? The 3 hashing options are:

It isn't going to increase the rate for a single stream.  However, few
setups have only a single TCP stream going across a segment, so this is
still quite useful for real-world setups to increase the total
throughput.

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Chris Adams <cmadams@...aay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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