[Cialug] NIC teaming

[Nathan C. Smith]

>
> 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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> Paul Gray
>
I wonder if this would still be true if they were on separate buses.  I assume there would still be some heavy impact communicating between the buses.