[Click] click & link aggregation

Eddie Kohler kohler at CS.UCLA.EDU
Mon Sep 13 22:15:54 EDT 2004


Hi Giorgio,

> I mean: is there actually any way to aggregate two or more distinct
> NICs together to increase the global throughput of a
> click packet switcher ?

While I haven't done this, I'd imagine that it would be easy.  Whether 
it helped would depend on whether the box was CPU-limited or 
bus-limited or network-limited (obviously).  On a bus-limited machine 
with multiple PCI buses, it might help.

Eddie



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