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| Thread ID: 76367 | 2007-01-30 05:43:00 | Does 2 ethernet cards = dble bandwidth | tvgts (5773) | Press F1 |
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| 520550 | 2007-01-30 05:43:00 | Hi, just wondering if you have 2x active network cards in a pc, will you get double the bandwidth? | tvgts (5773) | ||
| 520551 | 2007-01-30 06:06:00 | No. | Warhog (7975) | ||
| 520552 | 2007-01-30 06:19:00 | No.Not quote. "No" is correct if you just stick them in. However if you set them up as a single bonded interface, then yes - you can increase the bandwidth - however you will need an ethernet switch that supports bonding in order for this to work. See this thread (pressf1.co.nz). | Erayd (23) | ||
| 520553 | 2007-01-30 06:22:00 | Hrm never thought about that, I presumed he just meant sticking them in. | Warhog (7975) | ||
| 520554 | 2007-01-30 07:26:00 | cheers for the link, was just wondering and have a couple of spare NICs lying around. | tvgts (5773) | ||
| 520555 | 2007-01-30 09:21:00 | don't forget whatever is sending you the data must have enough bandwidth as well. handy if the other pc has a gigabyte network card you only have 100mbs cards. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 520556 | 2007-01-30 09:34:00 | Or if, as is the case with my setup, you have several clients talking to a single server. One thing you should note though - increasing network bandwidth is only useful up to a point, as the bottleneck will now be disk throughput. You can increase disk throughput by using some kind of striping RAID, or changing the filesystem type, or both. Just to give you some idea of what changing the filesystem type can do: Seagate 7200rpm, 8MB cache, NTFS: 8.5MBytes/sec max read Seagate 5200rpm, unknown cache, ReiserFS (noatime): 27MBytes/sec max read Both drives were tested in the same machine (Athlon64 3000+, 1GB ram, debian etch) |
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