Posts made by Charles

It is my understanding that Gigabit ports set to full duplex are 2Gbit total, 1Gb up and 1Gb down, which is why I was thinking I would only need 2 Gigabit Nics on the server and 2 ports on each switch for the trunk. I thought about VLans but in my environment that is adding one more thing that would be out of my control and there won’t be so much traffic going across all day that it would be an issue.

I have a question regarding bonding. My setup or soon to be setup is going to be the following, 2x Intel Gigabit NIC for the fog server with Raid 5 x6 10k hard drives, and 2 cisco gigabit switches (1 being a 2960G series) with 2 cables run between the switches for bonding/trunking/lacp. What would the best way be to set this upbe? The fog server will be in the server room connected to the first Cisco switch and then I will have 2 cables run to the 2960 switch to provide the room I’m in with 2Gb bandwidth. Where do I go from there, 802.3ad or 802.1q? Not much of a network guy so any help would be appreciated. My ultimate goal is to have 2Gb of bandwidth from the fog server to my room which is about 150ft away and where I do all my imaging.