[asterisk-users] Breaking news, but what happened? 11.000 channels on one server

[Olle E. Johansson]

25 aug 2009 kl. 18.50 skrev John A. Sullivan III:

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:28 +0200, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> 25 aug 2009 kl. 16.20 skrev Olivier:
>>
>>> I would be curious to know if bonding 2 Ethernet ports together
>>> would help to push the upper limit a bit further ...
>>> (by the way, this limit is 11000 channels or 5500 calls, isn't it ?
>>
>> Yes, this is 11.000 channels.
>>
>> Bonding is good advice, provided we have a switch that can handle
>> that. Gotta find a place to borrow such a switch.
>>
>> /Olle
> You don't necessarily need a switch to support it.  One can use alb  
> mode
> in Linux on any old switch and it works reasonably well other than for
> some excessive ARP traffic.  However, as we found out the hard way  
> when
> building our Nexenta SAN, bonding works very well with many-to-many
> traffic but does very little to boost one-to-one network flows.  They
> will all collapse to the same pair of NICs in most scenarios and, in  
> the
> one mode where they do not, packet sequencing issues will reduce the
> bandwidth to much less than the sum of the connections.  Take care -
> John

That is very good feedback - thanks, John!

Which means that my plan B needs to be put in action. Well, I did  
create a new branch for it yesterday... ;-)

/O