Bonding vs NStreme2

Hellbound · Wed May 04, 2005 10:49 am

is it gonna be faster if I bond two WLAN interface instead of making nstreme2?

Thanks

stephenpatrick · Wed May 04, 2005 10:53 am

Not tried myself, and would like to know the answer if anyone has -
If it does, the results could be more useful in certain applications, as you would get two half duplex channels (i.e. up to 83Mbps x 2 one way) rather than one full duplex (>80Mbps both ways) which should be great for some ISP setups I guess.

CPU power is going to be an issue, I'm guessing 600MHz minimum for this game.

Regards

Hellbound · Wed May 04, 2005 11:05 am

well I've got 1500MZH with 256 memory, but I have 2.8 which does not support bonding.

thanks for reply

mp3turbo2 · Wed May 04, 2005 6:22 pm

heya don't give up too early, I'm interested :)

Okej, Patrick, you can't get 80Mbps real TCP throughput with Nstreme stream. Maybe the TCP bandwidth test will show you that, but that's all.

I definitely agree with your
> the results could be more useful in certain applications

:)

stephenpatrick · Wed May 04, 2005 6:41 pm

MP3Turbo,

You are quite right, 83Mbps is UDP throughput, 72Mbps is TCP, with Nstreme using Bandwidth Test.
Real traffic may vary!

Is anyone else expert on bonding?
I have all the h/w here with 2.9betaRC1, enough radio cards, to try this.
Might run out of speed on the ethernet ports (most of mine are 100Mbps)
Any guidance on how to set this up with wireless and bonding (other than RTFM .....

?

Regards

GJS · Thu May 05, 2005 2:54 am

Any guidance on how to set this up with wireless and bonding (other than RTFM ..... ?

No, but I'm willing to provide moral support

[ASM] · Thu May 05, 2005 12:52 pm

Try this setup:

 
   RouterA                  StationA          StationB            RouterB
1Gbit     100Mbit------100Mbit   WLAN- - - -WLAN   100Mbit----100Mbit   1Gbit
          100Mbit------100Mbit   WLAN- - - -WLAN   100Mbit----100Mbit

must create 2 bridges on station A and station B. And Bound the 100Mbit ethernet interfaces of routers :)

I'm not sure that only one bandwight-server will be enough to test maximal speeds

stephenpatrick · Thu May 05, 2005 12:58 pm

Thanks ASM,

I need to find which of our boards have Gigabit LAN interfaces - most are 100Mbps only.
Might take some time to round up the right bits, most of our office LAN items are 100Mbps also (no copper gig ports!) so that getting a test setup is going to be fun ...

Regards

[ASM] · Thu May 05, 2005 1:22 pm

I know that this setup will work... I've made a more simlified before 5 months... But with beta9 (or something like that) wireless link was very weak...

Btw... If you don't want to use bonding you can use EQMR :)

stephenpatrick · Thu May 05, 2005 1:36 pm

Hi ASM,

Some of the mid 2.9beta's didn't work properly with Nstreme - slow throughput I posted a few times on that, and sent many supout's to MT, and they fixed it

Am I being slow - what's EQMR ?

Regards

[ASM] · Thu May 05, 2005 1:47 pm

Equal Cost Multipath Routing I mean ;) made a mistake somewhere ;)

stephenpatrick · Thu May 05, 2005 1:54 pm

Hi ASM,

Why don't we chat offline?
I'm keen to set this demo up, I think you could help lessen the pain ...
I've not use the routing or bonding features in MT so it's going to be a steep learning curve otherwise ...
I'm very happy to share/post results if we get this working.
stephen.patrick@cablefree.co.uk

Regards

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