[K12OSN] nic bonding anyone using it in k12ltsp labs

[Peter Hartmann]

Been using it for year and half i guess.  It's been good.  Bonding 4
gig nics. Once and a while, about every 4 months we'll have an
inexplicable grey X for 10 minutes, but I'm not sure I can blame it on
the bonding.  If you had 4 nic card I would  bond 3.  Compared to
serving X, the demands of web browsing aren't much.    I don't know
about the 4 nic card vs. 4 nics scenario.  Probably just a difference
in $.  I wonder if all switches aren't created equally in this
department?



Peter

On Nov 28, 2007 10:23 PM, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Just wondering if anyone at current is running any k12ltsp labs with nic
> bonded nics? If so what if any is the actual performance boost? There are
> a few how to's out now that makes nic bonding seem pretty reliable. It
> seems you would bound to benefit some with " more pipes":) I'm not enough
> of a numbers cruncher/ bean counter to figure were the actual bottleneck
> lies as far as bus/pci speed etc. Would there be any disadvantages of
> using a quad nic versus two or four nics for example? I thought if a
> person plopped in a quad nic into a server you could use two holes for
> eth0 and two holes for eth1. I've always wanted to toy around with this
> but it seems your better off finding what happens from actual past users
> of this kinda stuff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry Cisna
> westcentral school
>
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