Link Aggregation enjoyers:
Can I wire them in serial?
I want to know if this can actually work now.
You could do NIC teaming and get 10gb/s overall (on the network link - idk how they route USB/NIC/PCIe/etc.). You wouldn’t get that on a single connection that way, though. You’d have to either be content with multiple connections, or not team them and use a multi-path aware protocol like iSCSI.
I’m curious how close your total throughput would be to the theoretical 10Gb/s, assuming it was used with a switch that could keep up. Protocol overhead with Ethernet/TCP/IP is bad enough without NIC teaming to say nothing of the total throughput of the Thunderbolt transceiver
I don’t know if I’ll remember, but I’ll be able to try this in a few days, I have the same laptop, 2x 2.5G USB NICs + another 2 already in the mail, and also a 10G network.
If you’re wondering, my intention for ordering them definitely wasn’t for this, but more just for places around the house I can plug into, without having the framework NIC hanging off my laptop.
Why not? A TCP packet is 1500 bytes long, if you are not using jumbo frames, and every packet goes through another interface. You’ll need a smart switch for maximum speed, though.
So, this is Windows focused, but it goes over the abilities and shortcomings of different types of NIC teaming and the shortcomings that I was referring to are independent of OS.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30160
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