Is it possible to increase bandwidt
Is it possible to increase bandwidt
(OP)
Is it possible to increase bandwidth by using two nics. I know that if you are running advanced server. That you can configure load balancing is there anyway to increase the bandwidth somehow.
RE: Is it possible to increase bandwidt
Link aggregation drivers usually have several modes- load balancing (no increased throughput), fail-over support (no increased throughput) or ether channel (increased throughput).
Some Cisco switches support up to 8 ports (connections) being trunked. Your limiter here is going to be the PCI bus in your machine- at best you will get 650MB/s through it, realistically only 350-500 MB/s (other system devices want bandwidth too!). With multiple peer PCI buses you can get around this, but you are deep into hardware at this point....