What do you want to use channel bonding for? Increasing throughput or increasing availlability?
Raj >________________________________ > From: Koert Kuipers <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:59 AM >Subject: Re: ethernet bonding / 802.3ad / link aggregation > > >Thanks! I will post results. What is the recommended way to measure it? (I am >on Centos 5.x) > > >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. >> > > >
