Am 11.04.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Michael Loftis: > Most switches load balance based on MAC addresses, not IP, unless it > is routing the traffic as a Layer 3 switch then you can enable IP > based load balancing in some of those. Also you might simply be
that was the reason, why we disabled the loadbalancer and tested with plain NICs. > reaching the limits of your firewall box too you haven't mentioned any > of it's specs, nor do you seem to have run top while running the iperf > tests. The clients (who running iperf -c <ip>) had a load near zero, they are powerful machines (Sun sparcs) with 8 cores and more. The machine, with 4 Cores (Xeon) who is running "iperf -s", had a load round about ~0.8. No firewall etc. between the hosts, just plain network :-) cu denny_______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
