Hello PLUGgers! I have a small setup here in the office to test NIC bonding performance, specifically balance-alb or mode 6. So I have the ff. machines: 1) SERVER: a desktop PC with two LAN ports (the mobo-built-in one plus a PCI-card one, both are Realtek chipset using the r8169 driver) 2) CLIENT-A: a desktop PC with just 1 LAN port - the built-in one. 3) CLIENT-B: a laptop with a built-in LAN port. 4) An 8-port unmanaged Cisco/Linksys switch. All LAN ports in all machines are capable of 1GigE.
My goal is to see if the following will hold true: a) Simultaneous transfer of a 32GB-sized file from both CLIENT-A and CLIENT-B to SERVER and getting a sustained transfer rate of 100MBps or so per client. b) Simultaneous transfer of a 32GB-sized file from SERVER to both clients and getting a sustained transfer rate of 100MBps or so per client. However, I can't seem to achieve either of the goal. After a lot of googling around, "cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0" shows that while both ethernet ports are slaved, only one is active. How do I make both slaves active? My Google Fu is failing me on this. --- mike t.
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