Will check that out. Thank you guys. My stuff has arrived, I can't wait for the weekend to put it together. BTW, I wondered what FS would be the best option for the good throughput as well as sharing of the disk space. We have NFS at school on a 12node dual opteron cluster, and, based on my experience with it, I'll try to stay as far away from it as possible. GFS or PVFS2 or...? Thanks again, Frankie On 9/13/07, Nate Carlson <natecars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Balagopal Pillai wrote: > > For 802.3ad bonding mode, the switch needs to support lacp. Static > > trunking feature on the switch is not enough. In your case with no > > switch support, mode 6 or adaptive load balancing is a good option. > > Round robin is the only mode that will give you more than an interface > > worth of throughput on a single connection. But that needs some switch > > support. (like cisco etherchannel for example) Also there is additional > > overhead due to out of the order packets. The other modes will give > > better aggregate throughput. > > Well, if you use crossover cables, you can do it without switch support.. > ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
