August 23, 20241 yr After installing a super fast nvme cache in my NAS, on 10Gb LAN putting out 9.87Gb/s on Promox VM's, though it would appear as though upload transfers to Unraid are limited to around 700MB/s That being said, and as most all of my 10Gb NIC's are dual 10Gb, I was wondering if it is possible to bind two NIC's together with SMB, so-as to make it multithreaded? PS, I have tested and can confirm 10GB/s transfers with multi-threaded over ssh/sftp, and so it would appear as though this is technically possible yes?
August 23, 20241 yr possible, but useless. "bonding" more than one line together makes people think this would speedup things. this does not happen. Every connection uses a single card only all the time. running many connections concurrently possible could to the job but usually does not work too. The selection algorithm decides which card is to be used for what target. This is somewhat vendor specific, but in general all select the same card for the same host. To see any benefit from bonding you need to have a lan with several hundreds clients trying to talk to the server. Better think how to go to 25 or 40 or even 100G instead.
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