Re: Load balancing across multiple network paths

"Also sprach Nikos Gkorogiannis:"
> I've been experimenting with enbd-server/enbd-client that can talk to
> each other through two different network paths. The client is started
> with both IP addresses of the server as aliases. When I do a long dd I

As aliases? You mean two addresses on the command line, one per (slave)
daemon? Can't say that I've tried that for a while ...

> notice that both network interfaces are being used (confirmed also in
> /proc/nbdinfo stats)

How does it show that, exactly? Can you post the stats maybe?

> but in alternation, not in parallel. The result is
> that the total throughput ends up being the same as that of a single
> NIC's.
> 
> Is that normal? According to the man page of the client, the throughput
> should increase proportionally to the different network routes. Any
> ideas?

The daemons are independent. They do not alternate, because they do not
(in effect) know the other exists. So there is some other explanation.

Peter