Re: more throughput if using more interfaces per machines ?


Hi Kevin,

Thank you for taking time to answer my queries :)

How do i make the OS ( FreeBSD ) to treat the 4 interfaces as a single 
interface ? I have 4 different ip addresses assigned to each. ( client and 
server )

Any commnad line paramater i can pass to iperf to do the same ?

Thanks,
Nirav.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Gibbs <kgibbs --at-- ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 5:58 pm
Subject: Re: more throughput if using more interfaces per machines ?

> Your biggest issue here is that you need to make sure the interfaces are 
> acting as one. I believe the term is "binding". Basically you need the OS 
> to treat them as a single interface. It you are binding and getting the 
> same results try using 4 streams with (-P 4). For the UDP tests, are you 
> supplying a desired bandwidth with (-b)??
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, nirav jasapara wrote:
> 
> > i am using machines each with 4 Intel 1000BT dual Ethernet cards .
> > 
> > 1. When i connect two machines ( 1 interface each with a crossover) i 
> gat a thr
> > oughput of 750 mbps. 
> > 
> > $> iperf -s
> > $> iperf IP -c
> > 
> > then when i connected all 4 interfaces with 4 interfaces of the other 
> machines 
> > i was excepting 750*4 Mbps but i got the same 750 Mbps as throughput. 
> What 
> > could
> >  be wrong ? how can i check if the server and client are both using all 
> the 
> > four
> >  interfaces ?
> > 
> > 2. While running the same test in UDP mode i got a bandwidth of 1.5 Kbps 
> ? what
> >  could be wrong ?
> > 
> > - Nirav
> > 
> 
> 



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