Hi Guys, Would I be able to setup two nic's on my backuppc server to improve network transfer performance to the backuppc server. I usually have a least two backups running at the same time on this s
Does your switch support trunking/pairing/bonding of ports? http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-driver-howto.php I'm sure you
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:27:35 +0100
What you want to do is create a bonded interface. Here's the Red Hat way: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfacesnic-into-single-interface.html And the Ubuntu way
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:27:52 -0500
You'll likely get a lot more performance for your money by adding RAM; and after that, faster disks. If you already have a GB NIC, you're almost certainly outstripping disk performance, especially wi
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:31:52 +0100
I have a no-name server with a 3-ware SATA RAID controller and two gigabit ethernet interfaces. Between two servers on the same gigabit LAN, using default 1500-byte MTU, copying between disks, I can
Oh, umn sorry. I should have been more clear. I was trying to say 100 megabyte (MB) per second. Not mbit (mb). I've actually seen 109MB/s on a couple of intel nics here. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's Geek
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:09:38 +0100
Doh! I missed the big B, and I'm a network engineer. No donut for me! Tyler -- "Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of scien
Author: Ed McDonagh <ed.mcdonagh AT rmh.nhs DOT uk>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:10:40 +0100
What about the big and little 'm'? 'm'illi/'M'ega... makes quite a lot of difference too, even if a millibit/byte isn't a very useful unit! Ed Attention: This e-mail and any attachment is for authori
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