Trying to figure out VLANs, 3 LAN's, 1 Ubiquiti AP
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Pretty close ;)
But yes if your nas had a lag to the switch.. And then you had multiple clients all talking to the nas you could leverage and get more than 1 gig from the NAS spread across the lagg. But can your NAS push more than 1 gig? SSD drives?
1 client would never be able to leverage it.. And its quite possible even multiple clients would all use the same path and have to share the 1 gig. As you increase the number of clients talking to the nas you would get them spread across your 1 and 1 links. But its very hard to say if you would get a even distribution..
If your really wanted more bandwidth your nas it would prob be better to try and bump that to 10ge to your switch via a fiber connection. This can be done fairly cheap. Depending if you can put in a card in your nas. And if your switch supports sfp modules. The new 802.3bz is coming which will allow for 2.5 and even 5gpbs over existing copper connections.
While you can play with it on some of these "smart" switches - if anything its just going to complex up the network and cause you more grief than any sort of performance gains. If you want to play with you would want to get a full managed switch that has full support, etc..
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OK, that makes sense. Thanks!
For now I'll probably just disable the LAGG the next time I get around to it. I was really just curious how difficult it would be to get working, I have no intention of using it now. It seemed easy enough to implement it so I gave it a shot the first time I got a smart switch (the tp-link) and it didn't work for me.
So when I replaced it with the zyxel I tried again out of curiosity and sure enough it works just fine.
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So did you pull one of the cables during a transfer? The one that was being used to see how fast it moved over to the other path?
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So did you pull one of the cables during a transfer? The one that was being used to see how fast it moved over to the other path?
No I didn't do any actual testing. What I meant by that was that the network functioned. When I set it up on the TPlink my network just went down completely.
I'm the stands on the zyxel for lacp it has the option to set a time limit of 30s or 1 sec. It looks like this is the frequency it checks to see if all ports of the lacp are working? I left it at 30 sec since I'm not actually using it now.
Would the test you mentioned work with just one client or would I need to use multiple clients transferring files to see the difference when I unplug a cable?
