Link Aggegration with an Apple Mac Pro and a NetGear GS108T
Yesterday I finally got my Mac Pro. I've been saving up money for one for quite some time now...
Anyway, a few weeks ago I bought a NetGear GS108T managed Gigabit Switch.
It supports 803.3ad (link aggregation). My new Mac does too!
I had to try it out.
Read on for my experiences.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I bought a NetGear GS108T managed Gigabit Switch.
It supports 803.3ad (link aggregation). My new Mac does too!
I had to try it out.
Read on for my experiences.
First I had to setup the switch:
To setup my Mac I had to add a new virtual interface by clicking on the little gear in the Network pane of System Preferences and then choosing "Manage Virtual Interfaces..."
Then just click on the "+" and choose "New Link Aggregate", select your two network interfaces and type the name for your aggegrate.
At this point I lost my network connection, after a reboot and some experimenting I discovered that the individual interfaces of the aggregate need to be set to "off" for this to work. Otherwise, you'll end up with more than one IP-address and for some reason, this makes things go very wrong.
At first, I did this just for fun, to see if it would work. But it is actually very much faster than using just one interface:
This was while transferring two VMWare images from my Mac Pro to a Mac Mini and an Imac at the same time.
I think I'll keep it this way, I don't need the port on my switch and I like not having to wait on file transfers...
To setup my Mac I had to add a new virtual interface by clicking on the little gear in the Network pane of System Preferences and then choosing "Manage Virtual Interfaces..."
Then just click on the "+" and choose "New Link Aggregate", select your two network interfaces and type the name for your aggegrate.
At this point I lost my network connection, after a reboot and some experimenting I discovered that the individual interfaces of the aggregate need to be set to "off" for this to work. Otherwise, you'll end up with more than one IP-address and for some reason, this makes things go very wrong.
At first, I did this just for fun, to see if it would work. But it is actually very much faster than using just one interface:
This was while transferring two VMWare images from my Mac Pro to a Mac Mini and an Imac at the same time.
I think I'll keep it this way, I don't need the port on my switch and I like not having to wait on file transfers...
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