[clue-tech] What does balance-alb do?

[David L. Willson]

This is weird.  I bonded two interfaces on an NFS server, thinking it would help throughput.  It appears that all the box is doing is sending through one NIC and receiving through the other.  While that might get better results than duplexing on a single NIC, it doesn't seem like a load-balance...  What do you make of these statistics?

kadmin at Kiosk-L7:~$ ifconfig
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:66  
          inet addr:10.0.1.37  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fed6:ed66/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:283902195 errors:0 dropped:172 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:208435757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:313535367617 (292.0 GB)  TX bytes:129263373787 (120.3 GB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:67  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1117854 errors:0 dropped:172 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:195187304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:96213855 (91.7 MB)  TX bytes:127753329882 (118.9 GB)
          Base address:0x3000 Memory:da300000-da320000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:66  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:282784341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13248453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:313439153762 (291.9 GB)  TX bytes:1510043905 (1.4 GB)
          Base address:0x4000 Memory:da400000-da420000 


David L. Willson
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