[TriLUG] Attn: Samba Experts - Two Nics on same subnet?

[Jason Tower]

IMO, yes.  if you really want to improve performance, put your time/effort 
into getting a 100 Mb switch instead of trying to squeeze every drop from a 
couple of 10BT ports.  just my $0.02 of course.

jason

On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:51, bp wrote:
> Bonding two nics would require me to get into the IOS features of the
> cisco switch...  We don't get that kind of access.
> So am I really better off pulling that second nic then?  -bp
>
> Jason Tower wrote:
> >depending on what nics you have you can team or bond two nics to act as
> > one (which can provide better throughput and redundancy), but i think you
> > might need the switch to support that kind of thing as well.  otherwise i
> > wouldn't do it - two interfaces on the same subnet can cause all kinds of
> > problems that will likely far outweigh any performance benefits you're
> > likely to receive.
> >
> >jason
> >
> >On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:25, bp wrote:
> >>You may remember my post last week about replacing a part-time w2k file
> >>server with a dedicated linux file server.
> >>Well, Here's my machine.  Pieced together from lab parts & has a 120gb
> >>present from the lab manager on the way.
> >>
> >>A Compaq PC6000, 300mhz P2, 256MB ram
> >>+Primary IDE
> >>    cdrom
> >>    ibm deskstar 15gb (swap, home, & tmp partions here)
> >>+Secondary IDE
> >>    120 gb drive (soon, already ordered, huge public share)
> >>+Onboard SCSI2
> >>    wd 4.3 gb drive  (planning to install RH9 here)
> >>PCI 10/100 Ethernet card (dns/ip=x1)
> >>Onboard ethernet port  (dns/ip=fs)
> >>
> >>The question.  I think I've got the hardware laid out as best I can
> >>performance wise.  Now the question is with samba.  I have two static ip
> >>addresses available as noted above.  I was hoping that my bottle next
> >>will be the 10mb/s cisco switches we are on, so my first thought is to
> >>run cables to two different switches and have samba listen to all
> >>interfaces.  But then clients will have to use \\x1.lab.x.y\share OR
> >>\\fs.lab.x.y\share to get the "closer" or "less congested" interface?
> >>
> >>Are their any samba tricks for having two nic's on the same subnet to
> >>boost performance?
> >>
> >>*Ideally* i'd like to balance samba traffic across the two interfaces.
> >>
> >>I've tried something like this in the past and it seemed that only one
> >>nic ever got used.  But then again, I didn't know what I was doing. ;-)
> >>
> >>Any advice appreciated.
> >>-bp
>
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