[Cialug] NIC teaming

[Paul Gray]

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Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Anyone teaming nics/bonding nics under Linux?  Did you realize any measurable advantage by doing it?  Any Gotchas?

The gotchas relate to saturating the PCI bus with interrupts.  If you're
bonding a couple of GigE nics together, there's a benefit, but more than
two and your PCI/PCI-X bus cannot keep up with the interrupts.

Just my experience.

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