Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation

From: Chris Friesen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:29:31 -0400

"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