August 14, 201411 yr Can anyone recommend a cheap switch to lag say 2 or 4 ports. 8+ port switch and pref quiet. I have a 24 port GbE procurve, but it sounds like a rocket.
August 14, 201411 yr You aren't going to find a managed switch under 8 ports....and those are hard to find. Even though its not my favorite, the HP ProCurves can be had pretty cheap on eBay.
August 15, 201411 yr Author i understand the smallest switch is 8ports. looks like it might have to be a little 1810-8g
August 27, 201411 yr Netgear smarts witches work great. I have a gs724v3 and it has no fan and a couple gs108 too.
August 27, 201411 yr I would also like to play with LACP - it uses the IEEE 802.3ad protocol. Couldn't find this mentioned for the unmanaged GS108 switches you recommend. I already own a TP-Link TL-SG108E which looks very similar to the Netgear. 802.3ad is also not mentioned there. Edit: Found it! Not the protocol is mentioned but "Link Aggregation" in L2 features - cool! Is it sufficient just to connect the unRAID NICs to the LACP switch or is it necessary to have all switches and routers in my LAN with LACP capability?
August 27, 201411 yr It has to be a smart switch, http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/smart/GS108Tv2.aspx#tab-techspecs. The gs108 has several flavors.
August 27, 201411 yr Ah, I see. The TP-Link seems cheaper though. Any experience considering this questions: Is it sufficient just to connect the unRAID NICs to the LACP switch or is it necessary to have all switches and routers in my LAN with LACP capability?
August 27, 201411 yr Depends on what your goal is. If you think you will saturate the link between router and switches then you'll need to have LACP between them. Note though that LACP will not speed up a single session between two clients, it will however speed up your network if you have more clients connected. I use it because my server is a wmware server, thus the backbone between my main core switch and the network towards the server needs to have at least 2gbit if I want to ensure that network will not be the bottleneck. The TP link I guess is fine, I've gone the corp netgear road for my main core switch and then I just continued with all other switches placed in the house
August 27, 201411 yr Depends on what your goal is. If you think you will saturate the link between router and switches then you'll need to have LACP between them. Note though that LACP will not speed up a single session between two clients, it will however speed up your network if you have more clients connected. Exactly, in a home or small network setting, LACP is not going to add much (if any) benefit. Basically, none, unless you can select the hashing algorithm to include port number. Good News, what you are actually looking for is something like RFC 6824. http://www.rfc-base.org/rfc-6824.html This is finding its way into many OS, like that iPhone on your desk.
August 27, 201411 yr Thing is, even with mutipath most clients are only connected with one port, so it becomes useless when we are talking gigabit speeds.
August 27, 201411 yr The question is how to get the best usage of multiple ports. Obviously, if the device is limited to a single port, the only way to increase transfer rate is to increase port speed (1G to 10G). Sometimes, it is less costly to use two (or more) 1G ports than doing the upgrade from 1G to 10G. LACP limits the single stream speed to the physical interface speed. Using MTCP raises the single stream speed beyond the single port limit.
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