Aggregated Ethernet ports

[Erik LaRuffa]

Greetings community,


If I purchase a router that is able to aggregate 2 LAN Ports, would thee easiest way to take advantage of that on my system, install a dual Ethernet Port Nic that aggregates as well. Such as

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...54&cm_re=ethernet_card-_-33-106-015-_-Product

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...05&cm_re=ethernet_card-_-33-114-105-_-Product


BTW, which of these two would you all recommend?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

What's the point? Do you have a San or file server that also aggregates?

 

[Genx87]

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Erik LaRuffa]

Tinker with setting up a NAS

 

[dave_the_nerd]

If your NAS has dual NICs and aggregates, and you get a switch that has dual NICs and aggregates, and you have a dual NIC on your desktop and your OS supports aggregation, then if you hook it all up and configure it right, you will sometimes get double your speed if the protocol you're using also supports aggregation (depending on the type of aggregation and protocol used.)

So... yeah?

Unless you're LAGGing a bunch of connections together to build a higher-bandwidth backbone for dozens or hundreds of users, I'd file this under "stupid pet tricks."

But hey, go for it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Don't forget parallel SMB / SMB 3.0 support in Windows 10 (and 8.1?). Connecting two NON-LAGG ports, to a PC, and a NAS that speaks SMB 3.0, will result in nearly double throughput, for multiple-file transfers.

 

[sdifox]

If you are building your own nas, get a 10gbps nic for the nas from fleabay and a switch with 10gbps uplink ports.