<div dir="ltr">I kept it pretty simple because as long as it's faster than a single port I would be happy<div>If I can get the speed of 2x gigabit ports that would be excellent</div><div>I have the linksys and tp link switch, but would like to compare it to another brand for the trunking/bonding<br><div><br></div><div>it's only really for use on my home office LAN with a few clients and 2x NAS boxes and they do bonding on dual gigabit ports also</div><div><br></div><div>I saw the mode balance-rr and that was the first one I was trying</div><div>I will just be going point to point also.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for the advice. I will test round robin mode and check the LACP options in my switch</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Brad Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@fnarfbargle.com" target="_blank">brad@fnarfbargle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 17/11/14 16:47, Paul Del wrote:<br>
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Hey guys<br>
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Any recommendations for a gigabit switch brand/type?<br>
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My requirements are<br>
gigabit Ethernet<br>
16x ports<br>
needs to be rack mount<br>
budget is $500 max<br>
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main thing I require is link aggregation/port trunking<br>
for bonding to get greater speeds/throughput in Debian<br>
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You really, really need to quantify what "get greater speeds" means. If you mean you want one connection to use more than one links bandwidth then you are pretty much SOL with a switch. If you have 30 heavy duty clients and you need more than one uplink to a NAS then you will probably be ok.<br>
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If you want more than one links worth of bandwidth then you need to use something like round-robin and that is pretty much not compatible with switches. I do it here to get 3G between machines, but it's strictly point to point. You won't get it to switch efficiently at all.<br>
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