Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-11-11 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17:57PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: So, I decided to go with mode 6 since my network admin says thats supported at my college. I have everything working perfectly however I still get an occasional packet drop which is not good. Occasional??? Except on a dedicated

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-11-10 Thread Mag Gam
So, I decided to go with mode 6 since my network admin says thats supported at my college. I have everything working perfectly however I still get an occasional packet drop which is not good. http://www.howtoforge.com/network_card_bonding_centos By reading the HOWTO and README.txt I am not

[CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-09-06 Thread Mag Gam
Hello All, I am currently using bonding with 2 NICs (using mode 0). Its been working well, but I am trying to understand how it works (I am a total newbie). mode=0 (balance-rr) Round-robin policy: Transmit packets in sequential order from the first available slave through the last. This mode

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-09-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:57, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose data is being pushed out, it will go with 1st NIC and when it gets overloaded it will use 2nd NIC. No. If you are using balance-rr, one packet will go through the 1st NIC, and the next packet will go through the 2nd one.

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-09-06 Thread Mag Gam
Filipe: Thankyou! Your explanation helps a lot. Its makes more sense than reading mundane manuals :-) Actually, would there be a big performance boost when using mode4? Currently I am seeing 95% total throughput. Which isn't that bad. I am peaking at 238MB/sec (each gig/e connections) Also,

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-09-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 13:11, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, would there be a big performance boost when using mode4? Not necessarily, since balance-rr already gives you load-balancing. They actually implement it differently. balance-rr can spread packets of the same TCP connection