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Hi,
I've installed Wheezy on a new webserver for my office (I would have used stable but my RAID was not recognised)
I want to maximise the network throughput by bonding the two NICs (Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit).
I've done this on other servers (using "Stable") with good results.
I tested the network speed using iperf.
With a normal setup (MTU 9000) I got;
0.0-10.0 sec 1.16 GBytes 990 Mbits/sec
Setup with Bond Mode 0 (MTU 9000) I get;
0.0-10.1 sec 323 MBytes 267 Mbits/sec
Not the result I'd had hoped for!
Both NICs go to a Netgear GS748TS stack.
I tried setting up a LAG on the stack (Static and LACP) but the network would not come up.
Thanks. I hadn't see that page before and it was helpful.
I managed to get my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server running Mode 4 (server)/LACP (switch)
Is there a way to get figures for the maximum throughput of the server/switch? I've been using iperf which gives variable results, presumably because of the dynamic nature of Mode 4.
However, on a Debian Stable server I can't get it to run in the same configuration - only Mode 0 (server)/Static LAG (switch)
I don't know if this is because the version of the Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver;
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Debian Stable - v3.5.0 (November 4, 2008)
The two servers are different, so it may be down to the builtin ethernet card chipsets. Is there a way to determine which modes are supported by the NIC card?
I honestly haven't a clue, my experience of bonding NICs is based around doing active/passive pairing rather than bandwidth boosting, I just happened to remember that switches needed to be compatible for active/active pairing.
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