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Bonded Network adaptors #24629694
Hold on to your hats, this one is a lulu. I have a call into tech support, but I think this needs to be seen by all. The trouble started when I changed the name of my 516 after I had it configured...
StephenB wrote: LACP generally won't improve performance for a single connection. It's designed for trunking, so clients using unbonded connections will still see packets in order with no drops. That limits performance gains when both clients are bonded connections.
Layer 3+4 hashing might help some, but only if layer 4 is using multiple ports.
That is my hope: both NASs will have a bonded connection to increase the speed of the initial copy before I send the backup NAS to its off site home.
I heard from support this morning. I was told there were no known issues with bonding and that I shouldn't have any more trouble. I find that line of thinking troubling as there was very clearly an issue. Yes, it cleared up after several days of screwing around and much finger pointing on Netgear's side, but that doesn't mean there isn't something wrong with the code that shouldn't be looked at.
Anyhow, it is here for others to Google if someone else has the same problem.
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