On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 00:41 -0600, Dale Sykora wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 05:59 +0000, James Marcinek wrote: > > > >> > > >>I'm wondering if the bottleneck is in the network card. The whole network is > >>100BaseT. I haven't used a lot of network tools (mainly netstat) so I'd be > >>interested to hear of some good ones. Also if there are any suggestions based > >>off of past experiences. > >> > >>I do have one thing that I am considering but don't know if it's practical (or > >>feasible) and that is putting another network card onto the network. Now I've > >>never done this but heard that the cards could be bound, or one card accepting > >>packets and one would be for sending. I'd be extremely interested in hearing if > >>it's possible and how it can be done. I'd also like to hear of any pros and cons > >>to this or any other suggestions. > > > > --- > > Indeed - makes total sense - buy 2 server grade intel cards and yank out > > (or turn off in bios if motherboard) and do bonding to 1 ip address. > > Make sure you use high quality cables and hopefully this is a switch you > > are using to get full duplex and it would have to really help. > > > > > Craig > > > > Another option might be to add a 1Gb card in the server and get a switch > with Gb uplink. This is a popular solution on the k12ltsp list > (although their bandwidth problems are due to X traffic rather than > samba). amer.com sells a 24 port switch with 2x1Gb links for <$300 > > http://www.amer.com/catalogue/asr24g2.html ---- makes even more sense to me - even a bonded pair of 1Gb cards Craig
