23 Feb
2015
23 Feb
'15
11:12 p.m.
"Peter Ross" <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> writes:
From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
[Bonding is] slightly tedious and flaky; mostly I wouldn't bother. [...] The only "flakiness" I experienced had to do with confused switches. The Ciscos I have at the moment are okay. The handbook above touches the Cisco part too, as well as "how it works" (also useful for penguins).
IIRC (it was a while ago) it worked fine in our lab, but once we started actually shoving >1Gbps down a bonded 4×1gbps NIC, we got weirdness. (Like, one quarter of the frames would just disappear.) So we just said "fuck it" and bought 10gbps NICs thereafter, because that was cheaper than trying to finesse it.