Channel-bonding progress

[Mike Weller]

Hi,

I think I managed to solve the problem.  I noticed that in 
my "ifconfig" output, there's a lot of "overruns" packets reported.

Also, someone mentioned the possibility of it not arp'ing through
bond0.

I did 2 things. I'm not sure what works yet, but here are my
preliminary results.  I can achieve 180-200Mbps in bonding mode if I
change the MTU packet size from 1500 to 1200.  I also removed the eth1
and eth0 entries in the routing table to ensure that it uses bond0.
I'm going to install a better bandwidth benchmark and possibly search
for the optimal MTU size and post the results.  Here's the script that
I used to get the 180-200Mbps with FTP:

#!/bin/csh -f
insmod bonding
ifconfig bond0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth1 down
ifconfig bond0 inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig bond0 up
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 up
ifenslave bond0 eth0
ifenslave bond0 eth1
route  del -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
route  del -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth1
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200
ifconfig eth1 mtu 1200
ifconfig bond0 mtu 1200

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