[Soekris] impossible to link eth1, eth2,

[David Alexander]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:49:52 EST, Jed Clear <jclear at speakeasy.net>
wrote:

>On Fri Dec  5 20:25 , David Alexander  sent:
>>Several people here assume you want a bridge to tie all your
>>interfaces together.  Alas, bonding the nics
>>didn't provide any real throughput improvements
>
>First do you understand the difference between bridging and aggregation?
>
>Now if you set up a link aggregation (sometimes called by the ambiguous term
>"trunking"), you can increase your bandwidth in general use.  However you have to
>be aware of how the hashing algorithm is set up that picks which link to use for
>any given packet.
>

Yes, my terminology was incorrect because I was replying in kind with
the other posters.  I was actually using trunking to do link
aggregation.  However, your point about the hashing algorithm has me
wondering which one I actually used.  I remember reading about each
option but I don't recall if I used round-robin or the hashing
algorithm.  Perhaps I'll try my test again and see how it goes.
Thanks for the nudge.