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Best use / max performance for dual LAN
I have the 2100 rack mount and would like to take advantage of the dual LAN on the device. Simply connecting both NIC's to the switch (A NTGR managed switch) will not do the trick I suspect. The main reason I want to do this is I plan on using it as a DLNA server and I do not want the video streaming to impact other operations that could be taking place (IE file sharing, FTP, etc...).
Can the ports be Trunked at the switch thus giving 2 gig of throughput? Any other thoughts / ideas?
Thanks!
Can the ports be Trunked at the switch thus giving 2 gig of throughput? Any other thoughts / ideas?
Thanks!
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- As far as I know, when using trunking on the ReadyNAS it does not really combine the two ports as one. It is more like load-balancing instead. (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
stunod2002 wrote: I have the 2100 rack mount and would like to take advantage of the dual LAN on the device. Simply connecting both NIC's to the switch (A NTGR managed switch) will not do the trick I suspect. The main reason I want to do this is I plan on using it as a DLNA server and I do not want the video streaming to impact other operations that could be taking place (IE file sharing, FTP, etc...).
Can the ports be Trunked at the switch thus giving 2 gig of throughput? Any other thoughts / ideas?
Thanks!
You may want to read this as reference guide: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... 3100,-3200,
If you have multiple users, Teaming or NAS bonding improves the performance. However, it will not improve performance if you only have a single user.
I suggest that you need to configure LAG on the NTGR managed switch first before you connect the bonded ReadyNAS ethernet adapters.- Tanks for the link - This is exactly what I've been looking for..
"Adaptive Load Balancing. Includes transmit load balancing plus receive load balancing for IPV4 traffic and does not require any special switch support. The receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation." - Video streaming is actually not demanding, even full full bluray only requires 6-7 MB/s, and streaming typical HD downloads requires only 1-2 MB/sec.
Per http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=2276, the 2100 delivers about 85 MB/s (~700 mbits), so I don't think teaming will make much difference - it is not maxing out a single gigabit connection.
There's a chance ALB won't work well for you (note this thread: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=79162) So monitor the stats after you turn it on.
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