Hi,

 

I have two ethernet ports on my motherboard. Both do 100/1000.

I was looking at the options to utilize both ports to get the most throughput when needed to eliminate any bottleneck

at the network side of things.

 

The switch I have is unmanaged so there is no option at the switch or support for any mode that requires switch support.

 

What is the best method to use? I have Bonding and Setup Bridge enabled.

I have not changed anything at the Bonding Mode setting as there is a warning about getting it wrong.

 

I just want to have the max speed available and I figured that since I have another ether net port going begging, why not use that as well!

 

Any advise on this please?

 

Thank you!

 

 

Without a managed switch you can't do what you want to do which is setup a LAG, or Link Aggregate Group, but why you want to do this? If the switch you currently have is gigabit, then you are already running at max speed, creating a LAG with a managed switch could theoretically increase speeds but in my experience its not worth the trouble or the cost if you have to buy a managed switch.

Hi,

 

Oh, I've no intention to buy a managed switch. I was just not sure if there was anything where I would be able to link both together for better speeds with what I have already. Guess not.

 

So at the moment with the settings I have enabled. which is..

Enable bonding: yes

Bonding mode: active backup

Setup bridge: yes

Bridge enable STP: yes

 

This has no real benefit?

 

 

 

Mode 0 (balance-rr) can improve speed with any switch but only works with other linux computers.

 

Latest beta includes samba 4.4 with experimental smb3 multichannel, I didn't have much time to try it but could not get it to work, it should work in the near future, and this works with windows and any switch (need windows 8 or above).

No STP stands for Spanning Tree Protocol and without a managed switch you can't use it. So no, those settings will not improve performance.

Thanks for your help. All that replied