Load Balancing & large files

Can anyone tell me if when you team NICs and setup Adaptive load balancing,
will it split large files across multiple NICs order to even the load out?

I was assuming it would - but I need to verify this and can't find any docs
that go into that much detail about how oad balancing works. We need to
verify that load balancing will help when transmitting a few very large files.

Thanks.

Nics would not know what a file was if they tripped over it. Files "live"
at the Application level,...nics "live" all the way down in the first bottom
two Layers of the OSI model. All Nics know are MAC addresses and Packets.

If it divides the traffic flow at the Packet Level it is doing what you
want,...if it divides the traffic flow at the Session level it is not doing
what you want. I suspect it does it at the Packet Level but am not sure.
But now you should have a better idea what to look for.


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"Pat Heising" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:FAE36E43-F93A-4947-8F3D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Can anyone tell me if when you team NICs and setup Adaptive load
> balancing,
> will it split large files across multiple NICs order to even the load out?
>
> I was assuming it would - but I need to verify this and can't find any
> docs
> that go into that much detail about how oad balancing works. We need to
> verify that load balancing will help when transmitting a few very large
> files.
>
> Thanks.

Phillip,
Thanks for the info. What you said makes sense. I'm just not sure how the
teaming stuff works(at what level) and even how similar the feature is
between different brands of NICs. We're using Intel and occassionally
Broadcom. I guess I may just have to set it up and test it myself.

Thanks,
Pat


"Phillip Windell" wrote:

> Nics would not know what a file was if they tripped over it. Files "live"
> at the Application level,...nics "live" all the way down in the first bottom
> two Layers of the OSI model. All Nics know are MAC addresses and Packets.
>
> If it divides the traffic flow at the Packet Level it is doing what you
> want,...if it divides the traffic flow at the Session level it is not doing
> what you want. I suspect it does it at the Packet Level but am not sure.
> But now you should have a better idea what to look for.
>
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
> www.wandtv.com
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Pat Heising" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:FAE36E43-F93A-4947-8F3D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Can anyone tell me if when you team NICs and setup Adaptive load
> > balancing,
> > will it split large files across multiple NICs order to even the load out?
> >
> > I was assuming it would - but I need to verify this and can't find any
> > docs
> > that go into that much detail about how oad balancing works. We need to
> > verify that load balancing will help when transmitting a few very large
> > files.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

"Pat Heising" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ED6BEF47-5899-4904-9907-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Phillip,
> Thanks for the info. What you said makes sense. I'm just not sure how the
> teaming stuff works(at what level) and even how similar the feature is
> between different brands of NICs. We're using Intel and occassionally
> Broadcom. I guess I may just have to set it up and test it myself.

If their documentation doesn't specifiy, then I don't know.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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