Slow performance with teamed nics

[Ayman Altounji]

We are using 2 double NICS to connect our servers with our backbone. We're using the CISCO Fast Etherchannel technology but the performance is very slow.

At an average we get 60 - 70 Mbyte/minute.

Is there anyone who uses the same technology, and has solved the problem?

Greetings and a happy holiday,

Geert Nijburg

[Ayman Altounji]

What type of NICs? Are you using ISL (interswitch linking) as well (not supported)?

[Ayman Altounji]

We have used mulitiple NIC's on IBM Netfinity servers and experienced slow response with Domain logins. We recently have been directed by our customer to use Compaq DL580 servers with dual-port NIC's for fault-tolerant configs. Also, there is a strong possibility that will will implement this server and NIC on a WIN2K platform. I would be very interested to know if there are any known issues with multiple NIC configurations in an NT/Win2k environment. This will be critical in our OS developement.

Nabeel Sayegh
EDS Infrastructure Engineering