[PVE-User] bond0 Issues

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I am not sure what AoE is? Could you explain?

ATA over Ethernet - I guess you do not use it.
 
> And 4 NIC's bonded gives 4 times the bandwidth as well as fault
> tolerance. 

I don't think so - overhead is too big. Anyways - make your own
benchmarks.

> Which is really good for some of our servers. It makes
> migrating servers a little easier because it adds a little abstraction
> to the network layer. Now I have each interface as a separate bridge
> to keep some of our high bandwidth severs happy. When having to
> migrate them it is really hard to keep track of which server is using
> what bridge so that two high bandwidth servers don't have to share a
> link causing slow downs for the users. I was hoping to try and use a
> bond interface to eliminate that issue.

Does that error also occur when you use 2 NIC's (is STP on or off)?

- Dietmar