So I have had my FreeNas setup for a while now and I have a few machine but only 2 are relevant for this conversation The Freenas box and my desktop (win 7).
Now I have read a lot about lagg and spoken to my cisco certified mates and dug through this forum and I get the idea that LACP is really only good when having lots of clients to load balance the connections.
The problem I have is I can get 120 MB/s out of my desktop HDD and I want to get that speed across the network. Currently I get around 80 - 100 MB/s average. I have just setup a HP procurve 1810g-24 switch that supports LACP and installed a intel pro/1000 PT quad port nic in the freenas box. The next thing on order was a dual port card for the desktop in the hope I could increase bandwidth and get the speeds up around 120 MB/s.
Now I get LACP is probably no good but then I read about static vs dyanmic LACP and then FEC etc. If LACP is no good then is there any other mode that could be used to increase the bandwidth between these two machine??
And no I cant afford 10GB ethernet hardware :p
Thanks guys I know this is a repetitive topic.
Now I have read a lot about lagg and spoken to my cisco certified mates and dug through this forum and I get the idea that LACP is really only good when having lots of clients to load balance the connections.
The problem I have is I can get 120 MB/s out of my desktop HDD and I want to get that speed across the network. Currently I get around 80 - 100 MB/s average. I have just setup a HP procurve 1810g-24 switch that supports LACP and installed a intel pro/1000 PT quad port nic in the freenas box. The next thing on order was a dual port card for the desktop in the hope I could increase bandwidth and get the speeds up around 120 MB/s.
Now I get LACP is probably no good but then I read about static vs dyanmic LACP and then FEC etc. If LACP is no good then is there any other mode that could be used to increase the bandwidth between these two machine??
And no I cant afford 10GB ethernet hardware :p
Thanks guys I know this is a repetitive topic.