One should not expect Link Aggregation to improve the performance of a single Vnic talking to a single target. The packets associated with a single conversation (probably not the right term) are not shuffled across the different OSAs or spread across them. We do spread different conversations across different OSAs with load balancing. The z/VM Performance Report has additional details:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/reports/zvm/html/linkagg.html Regards, Bill Bitner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390