[Cialug] NIC teaming

[Jeff Chapin]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Anyone teaming nics/bonding nics under Linux?  Did you realize any measurable advantage by doing it?  Any Gotchas?
>
> Thanks
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> -Nate
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I have used it in the past, primarily for high availability. We were 
able to stream data to/from our server and reboot the switches it was 
connected to and not miss a beat.  I never tested the bandwidth 
advantages, but presumably the guy that configured the Ciscos for this 
enabled aggregation so that we would have been running at 2*100Mbit to 
any other machine configured on those switches.

Later on I managed a few VMWare ESX boxes that used bonded nics and 
iSCSI and it *seemed* much happier when both nics were plugged in.

My 2 cents.

Jeff Chapin