Thanks for the reply.  You saved me hours of fighting with it. On 09/09/2018 01:30 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Keep in mind, bonding nics does not magically give you n+x throughput... > > By nature of the technology, there are flow hashes created off > source/dest mac, ip, or port, that keeps your flows "stuck" to a > particular computes hash path.  So if you have a single tcp connection > with same source, destination, and port (ie backup or cifs filer > session), it will NOT balance across multiple pipes, but rather will > just fill one of n in the link aggregation bundle.  There are bond > settings to control this, but will still ultimately be a limitation > whether you're talking a linux server or a high-end cisco nexus > switch.  This works great only when you're a service provider with > lots of little connections to spread out, not so much a few major blasts. > > This is a popular misconception among non-networking folks that simply > bonding multiple circuits gives your more bandwidth, but entirely not > the case.  If you need more than 100mb, you 1gb.  If you need more > than 1gb, you go 10gb, etc. Bonding is more for redundancy than > throughput imho. > > -mb > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Jones > wrote: > > You are still limited by the pipe and the sending/receiving box. > It’s probably not gonna work like you think. You will most likely > slow your connection down. > > But ... > https://askubuntu.com/questions/53499/how-to-merge-multiple-internet-connections-into-one > > > Try it out and report back. > > > On Sep 9, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Jim > wrote: > >> My computer has 100 megabit ethernet on the motherboard.  I've >> disabled that so I can use the gigabit ethernet card I added.  If >> I were to bond those adapters, could i get 1.1 gigabit?  How >> would I do this? >> >> thanks >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss