Hello everyone. I have one question to ask. I have a Fileserver on my local network. Is there any way, or is it just possible increase the bandwidth to the fileserver if it has 2NICS. I have a 10/100 Local Network, so is it possible to increase the Bandwidth to the fileserver by installing the second NIC and do some "funky" Advanced routing and QOS?. File Server 10/100 Switch ------------- |------ Local Area Network | | | | ------------------- | | | | | | | | | |[<---------------|Client1 | |-----------| | | | | | NIC NR1 |-------------->]-| |[<---------------|Client2 | ------------- | | | | | NIC NR2 |-------------->]-| |[<---------------|Client3 | ------------- | | | | | | | |[<---------------|Client4 | | | | | | | ------------- ------- ------------------- Any help and suggestions appreciated. :0) Best regards, Svavar Orn svavar@atom.is Reykjavik - Iceland
We''re assuming 100 Mb/sec now, right? The rules change a little with GBE NICs wrt who''s got the better hardware... Bonding has actually been available for some time; the beowulf clusters have taken advantage of it for years. I believe it went into the kernel tree around 2.0.16, but it could have been after the release of the 2.2.x set. A couple of things have to be considered, including the quality of your NICs. Some of th elow end ones will never provide good performance (RealTek comes to mind in our experience) while almost anything with the older DEC Tulip chipset will perform well, as will most of the Intel products. Is your PCI bus speed up to the task of multiple NICs? An older computer running a slow bus can bog down at times. Also, if your server is busy, multiple interfaces and a round-robin DNS implementation may be a good answer without bonding. Similarly, access via a switches, rather than shared, network interface is a performance enhancer. gerry Michael T. Babcock wrote:>>I have a Fileserver on my local network. >>Is there any way, or is it just possible increase the bandwidth to the >>fileserver if it has 2NICS. >> > > Look up ''bonding'' in newer kernels... >
> I have a Fileserver on my local network. > Is there any way, or is it just possible increase the bandwidth to the > fileserver if it has 2NICS.Look up ''bonding'' in newer kernels... -- Michael T. Babcock
Hi, Svavar : I have set bonding and it works fine... but.. Before spending your money try to figure out first what your system bottleneck is... I purchased another NIC and installed bonding only to discovered that my bottleneck was the hard disk''s server. Best regards, Leonardo.-