two NIC and nfs

Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 21:44:14 UTC 2006


Well..the right way to do this is with a switch that can etherchannel
the NICs together, im not sure if Fbsd can do that..of course.

But..are you really peaking out at 100Mb/sec with your existing NFS
architechture that you need a second pipe?

If you're not, I doubt a second pipe would speed anything up.



On 10/23/06, Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>  Le 23/10/2006 à 13:09:21-0800, Jeff Mohler a écrit
> > Are nic1 and nic2 on the same network?
> >
> >
> >
> > Are client2 and nic2 on the same network?
> >
> >
>
> Yes all in same subnet, all connected on the same gigabits switch.
>
> and all nfs traffic is in UDP.
>
> > >Hi all
> > >
> > >I've two NIC on my server.
> > >
> > >Until now I just use one. I want use the second interface to increase
> > >perfs.
> > >
> > >The server have only one purpose : nfsd.
> > >
> > >Suppose if I do
> > >
> > >        nfs_nic_1  <---> client 1
> > >
> > >        nfs_nic_2  <---> client 2
> > >
> > >well that's work but not... really because if incomming traffic from
> > >client_2 pass through nic_2, all output traffic pass through nic_1.
> > >
> > >How can I make the all traffic between client_2 and my server pass through
> > >nic_2 ?
> > >
>
> Regards.
>
> JAS
> --
> Albert SHIH
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> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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