Thanks [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/members/mentaloid.4362/’][B]Mentaloid[/B][/URL] for your reply.
No, I am not using Multicast. The last time I used it (with FOG .32), when I went to deploy Multicast, the switch and PCs chocked (it said something ridiculous like 10 hours or so to deploy the image). I don’t know if the switch supports it or not. Unicast to 1 PC does yield much better download speeds, at least 3 GB/min, sometimes more. When you start adding, though, the speed decreases to around 900 KB/min to 1ish GB/min for all 15 PCs being imaged. The switch is a gigabit switch. All 15 nodes are Dell 780s with Gigabit ethernet, and the server also has 2x 1 GB ethernet ports. The server runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (I built the server in early July.)
So, if I try to implement bonding, I take it that it will not help much if the switch doesn’t support it? The reason I ask is that when I looked into this, there were several bond modes and only mode 4 (802.3ad) specifically specified needing support on the switch end.
Thanks again!