Enhancing performance on Server

Dale Sykora dalen at czexan.net
Wed Jan 26 06:41:48 UTC 2005


Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 05:59 +0000, James Marcinek wrote:
> 
>>

>>I'm wondering if the bottleneck is in the network card. The whole network is
>>100BaseT. I haven't used a lot of network tools (mainly netstat) so I'd be
>>interested to hear of some good ones. Also if there are any suggestions based
>>off of past experiences.
>>
>>I do have one thing that I am considering but don't know if it's practical (or
>>feasible) and that is putting another network card onto the network. Now I've
>>never done this but heard that the cards could be bound, or one card accepting
>>packets and one would be for sending. I'd be extremely interested in hearing if
>>it's possible and how it can be done. I'd also like to hear of any pros and cons
>>to this or any other suggestions.
> 
> ---
> Indeed - makes total sense - buy 2 server grade intel cards and yank out
> (or turn off in bios if motherboard) and do bonding to 1 ip address.
> Make sure you use high quality cables and hopefully this is a switch you
> are using to get full duplex and it would have to really help.

> 
> Craig
> 

Another option might be to add a 1Gb card in the server and get a switch 
with Gb uplink.  This is a popular solution on the k12ltsp list 
(although their bandwidth problems are due to X traffic rather than 
samba).  amer.com sells a 24 port switch with 2x1Gb links for <$300

http://www.amer.com/catalogue/asr24g2.html





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