[K12OSN] Bonding 3 networkcards and 3 switches.

[William Fragakis]

Is something like this in the budget?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817111450

Two of these plus another gigabit NIC 

For all the work, cost and fuss, 300mbit isn't going to help much.

As I mentioned before, we could easily saturate a 10/100 with only 5-6
clients. Tripling that (ignoring overhead, etc.) now gets you up to 15
clients max on your duct taped 10/100 network which is far short of what
you have. 

I know budgets are tight to non-existant but avoid, if possible, a
solution that just means you are going to have to do it again properly.

Regards,
William

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> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:42:48 +0200
> From: jan nilsen <jannilsen.nilsen at googlemail.com>
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> So, I have a server with a 1gbit NIC, and 3 16-ports switches (all
> 100mbit ports), that are linked togheter the old switch-in-switch
> style, and I have about 45 clients (mix of thinclients, workstations
> and laptops).
> 
> When most of the machines are in use, I notice that having only
> 100mbit out of the server is not enough.
> 
> So I can either buy myself a 48 port switch with 1gbit uplink with
> money we don't have (we realy don't have any money),
> or I thought I could try this "bonding" thing.
> 
> I can put 3 network cards in the server, and connect each of those
> networkcards with it's own 16-port switch, that way I would have
> 300mbit out of the server.
> 
> What kind of bonding mode should I choose?
> 
> Or is there some other way?
> 
> jan
> 
> 
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