Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Bonding does not help with single stream performance.
> You have to have multiple apps generating multiple streams
> of data before you'll realize any improvement.
> Therefore netpipe is a bad test for what you're doing.

This has always confused me.  Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread all 
the traffic over all
the links?  This would allow for a single stream to use the full aggregate 
bandwidth of all bonded
links.

Chris