On 25 April 2011 13:19, Jim Green <student.northwest...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 April 2011 09:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jim Green wrote: >>> I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I >>> am thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so >>> will only use one port. Will this do much help to the >>> throughput/speed? If I have two cables connecting to both ports I >>> think it will definitely help, but here I only be using one cable/one >>> port and two nics bonded to one virtual nic. >> >> Your board has Realtek 8111Es for NICs. I won't sugar-coat it: that >> stuff cannot be called good gigabit ethernet NICs in any way. Its only >> saving grace is that it is dirty cheap. >> >> Try to get jumbo frames working on your network, it should help you get >> better throughput _if it works right_. You just have to set the MTU to >> the *same jumbo frame size* on *every host on your network* to enable >> that. But make sure your switch can handle jumbo frames first, and that >> such support is enabled. >> >> Example jumbo MTU sizes: 9000, 7200, 4000. Which one you can reliably >> use depends on the least capable device in your network and their bugs. >> >> I would expect bonding to actually make things worse with r8169-based >> NICs, but maybe it would distribute the interrupts better and give you >> better performance at the cost of wasting even more CPU resources. This >> is only cost-effective if you happen to have a gigabit managed switch >> capable of link bonding (LACP) already, or when directly connecting two >> computers. >> >> Bonding with just one cable simply doesn't help performance. Either the >> devices notice the missing link and disable the offending ports (and you'll >> be slightly worse off than you'd be without any bonding in the first place), >> or you will have the packet loss from hell. >> > > Looking at this, I think I am better off disabling the realtec nic and > use intel® 82579 Gigabit LAN controller on the board instead.
Btw, will be using e1000e module for this nic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=vH7uGb=UNdejMb¡z93qqvf...@mail.gmail.com
