Is there a way to duplicate the throughput of a single TCP connection using two servers having two gigabit NICs?
I have tried using LACP but I cannot get more than 900MB of throughput... dmesg both servers are equal: OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC.MP) #368: Wed Aug 1 10:04:49 MDT 2012 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 2141519872 (2042MB) avail mem = 2062200832 (1966MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0x7fb9c000 (64 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "2.0.1" date 10/27/2007 bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC SPCR HPET MCFG WDAT SLIC ERST HEST BERT EINJ TCPA acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz, 1596.16 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,NXE,LONG,LAHF cpu0: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 265MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz, 1595.93 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,NXE,LONG,LAHF cpu1: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz, 1595.93 MHz cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,NXE,LONG,LAHF cpu2: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz, 1595.93 MHz cpu3: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,NXE,LONG,LAHF cpu3: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4 ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 5 pa 0xfec81000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 5 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 6 (PEX2) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 7 (UPST) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 8 (DWN1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 10 (DWN2) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX3) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 2 (PE2P) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 12 (PEX4) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 14 (PEX6) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 4 (SBEX) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 16 (COMP) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu2 at acpi0: C3 acpicpu3 at acpi0: C3 ipmi at mainbus0 not configured pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 5000X Host" rev 0x12 ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci1 at ppb0 bus 6 ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 7 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci3 at ppb2 bus 8 ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci4 at ppb3 bus 9 bnx0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 ppb4 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 10 ppb5 at pci1 dev 0 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x01 pci6 at ppb5 bus 11 ppb6 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci7 at ppb6 bus 1 ppb7 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 "Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x00 pci8 at ppb7 bus 2 mfi0 at pci8 dev 14 function 0 "Dell PERC 5" rev 0x00: apic 5 int 14, 0x1f031028 mfi0: logical drives 1, version 5.2.1-0067, 256MB RAM scsibus0 at mfi0: 1 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 5/i, 1.03> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.6001c230daeb98001352781c17f970ff sd0: 278784MB, 512 bytes/sector, 570949632 sectors ppb8 at pci7 dev 0 function 2 "Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x00 pci9 at ppb8 bus 3 ppb9 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12: msi pci10 at ppb9 bus 12 ppb10 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci11 at ppb10 bus 13 ppb11 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12: msi pci12 at ppb11 bus 14 ppb12 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci13 at ppb12 bus 15 "Intel I/OAT" rev 0x12 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured pchb1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb2 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb3 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb4 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb5 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 pchb7 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 ppb13 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x09 pci14 at ppb13 bus 4 ppb14 at pci14 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci15 at ppb14 bus 5 bnx1 at pci15 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: apic 4 int 16 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 20 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: apic 4 int 21 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb15 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd9 pci16 at ppb15 bus 16 vga1 at pci16 dev 13 function 0 "ATI ES1000" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) radeondrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 19 drm0 at radeondrm0 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB LPC" rev 0x09 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB IDE" rev 0x09: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, CDRW/DVD GCCT10N, A102> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub4 at uhub0 port 5 "Cypress Semiconductor USB2 Hub" rev 2.00/0.0b addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b bnx0: address 00:1c:23:d3:70:f8 brgphy0 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6 bnx1: address 00:1c:23:d3:70:f6 brgphy1 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6 bnx0: Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting! splassert: assertwaitok: want -1 have 1 splassert: 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