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Jul 22, 2015

MPIO - slow speed

Hello! I have two ReadyNAS6 Pro boxes with the following configs: 1 box RDN6 pro/E7300/4gb/6*2Tb WD CB/4.2.27 FW 2 box RDN6 pro/E5300/2gb/6*2Tb WD CB/6.3.5 FW Other equipment: Juniper EX330...

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BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 22, 2015

Hi Wingdog,

How many active NICs are you using in your ReadyNAS system?

Kind regards,

BrianL

NETGEAR Community

WingDog
Guide
Jul 23, 2015
Hi BrianL.
Two NICs obviously.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jul 23, 2015
  There are some good tips re MPIO here in the "Configure multiple MPIO sessions to the Target" section
  
  With MPIO the key is have the 2 nics on separate subnets. Otherwise you cannot be sure that layer 2 gets it right
  - WingDog
    Guide
    Jul 23, 2015
    mdgm wrote:
    There are some good tips re MPIO here in the "Configure multiple MPIO sessions to the Target" section
    
    With MPIO the key is have the 2 nics on separate subnets. Otherwise you cannot be sure that layer 2 gets it right
    it's something new about separate subnets for MPIO =)
    I'll check it out.