[mdlug] Maxing out on 10/100 LAN

[Dan Pritts]

assuming you are talking about general file service with moderate to 
large files, samba/smb chattiness is probably your limiting factor.

but make sure you are saturating the LAN before worrying about upgrading 
it.

I assume you have simultaneous active clients (if not, why worry about 
multiple interfaces?).  If so, you may see some improvement with a 
simple upgrade to a 10/100 switch with a couple 1G uplink ports, and put 
your server on 1G with a decent ethernet card.


Robert Adkins II wrote:
> That is along the lines I was thinking, unfortunately, to go to GB ethernet,
> I do believe that I will need to rewire the whole building and I am unsure
> if that will really fundamentally change performance across the whole
> network. I certainly would need to acquire almost 30 Gigabyte Ethernet
> cards.
>
> Perhaps I will dig around and setup samba to serve the same shares all off a
> series of network interfaces.
>
> Thanks.