No Jumbo frames set anywhere, if you have them set you need them set 
everywhere, hence you'd also need a local backup network otherwise it 
would kill regular performance for the clients.

Justin.

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Curtis Preston wrote:

> Justin,
>
> Is that also without jumbo frames?
>
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 3:25 PM
> To: Dominik Pietrzykowski
> Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GbE performance
>
> Yeah I see between 180 - 260 MiB/s typical with bursts of 500-550 MiB/s
> on
> my 10GbE media servers.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Dominik Pietrzykowski wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> This may interest some people,
>>
>>
>>
>> We've had our 10GbE card running for a while now and it seems to have
>> settled at around 400MB/s at the start of the backup window until the
> jobs
>> start to dry up towards the end. Seems to be a bottleneck with the
> clients
>> at the moment as they can't pump out enough data to keep the media
> server
>> busy. Also need to setup jumbo frames on the backup interfaces of the
>> clients but we can't do this since we're in a change freeze until the
> new
>> year.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Dominik
>>
>>
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