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ReadyNas link aggregation, bonding, teaming
I have a Readynas Pro6 with 6.8.0 I'd like to increase the netwrok speed, copying large files (3-25GB) from my computer to NAS, or reverse. The NAS have 2x Gigabit network port. My PC have a...
kekegsm wrote:
Round Robin better for me than XOR?
Round Robin ensures that outbound traffic from the NAS uses both NICs equally. XOR does a hash of the source and destination addresses. I think that will limit you to 1 gigabit throughput.
This will require some experimentation. ALB or TLB modes might also be worth a try.
In general, NIC bonding works better when you have multiple users. LACP in particular won't deliver more than 1 gigabit of data per data flow on a gigabit network. That's to prevent packet loss in the clients (which generally aren't using nic teaming).
You could try using a static LAG for both the PC and NAS. On the NAS you'd choose round-robin (which would even the load on the two connections). You'd want to enable ethernet flow control in the switch and the clients, in order to prevent data overrun to your other devices.
If you want to play with this, I suggest doing some benchmarks on both the PC performance and other devices that use the NAS first. Then make sure that the bonding doesn't reduce performance (especially on the other devices). Also, I don't believe Windows supports NIC teaming, so make sure you research the PC support.
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