Linux 2Gbit help me

[T3Kgamer]

Hey so i'm working with a mine craft server and it has 2 lan ports (it had 4 but it was pretty useless) so out of the 2 ports only one of them is running at full 1000Mbit the other doesn't appear to be being used it's light indicates 100Mbit even though both ports can run at 1000Mbit I'm using turnkey linux (debian) is there some kind of configuration i can do to get 2Gbit the server has a Supermicro x7DVL-E Motherboard

[Electronics Wizardy]

You don't get 2gbit with 2 ports.

 

You also probably don't need the bandwidth.

 

Do you have a switch that supports LACP/teaming?

[T3Kgamer]

16 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You don't get 2gbit with 2 ports.

 

You also probably don't need the bandwidth.

 

Do you have a switch that supports LACP/teaming?

Okay i didn't know that linus had made a video with something like that

yeah i probably don't need the bandwidth but its more of a cause i can

Don't know what LACP/teaming is or how to check if i have it

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, T3Kgamer said:

Okay i didn't know that linus had made a video with something like that

yeah i probably don't need the bandwidth but its more of a cause i can

Don't know what LACP/teaming is or how to check if i have it

That video was using smb 3 on windows 8/2012 or never.

 

There is no easy way to do this. that will jsut work

 

You can make a team, but you need a supported switch(do you have a smart switch?)

[T3Kgamer]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

That video was using smb 3 on windows 8/2012 or never.

 

There is no easy way to do this. that will jsut work

 

You can make a team, but you need a supported switch(do you have a smart switch?)

No the switch I have is a very basic unmanaged gigabit switch.
anyways if there's no easy way to do it then it's no big deal I'm glad you told me before i tried putting in 2 more interfaces

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, T3Kgamer said:

No the switch I have is a very basic unmanaged gigabit switch.
anyways if there's no easy way to do it then it's no big deal I'm glad you told me before i tried putting in 2 more interfaces

No you can't do it than. You can have 2ip's and use each ip for seprate uses, but you can;t link them together.

[dantayy]

You can do NIC teaming on windows for a 2gbps link, or Link Aggregation for up to 2gbps transfers, but i'm not so sure for linux. Your ethernet ports are both Intel Gigabit ports so you're probably not conifguring something correctly.

 

Note that bonding two network interfaces will only increase your local network connection speed. Your server will be limited by your internet speed

[leadeater]

You can team them using Linux balance-alb method which is switch independent and can give you 2Gbps usable bandwidth, balance-alb does ARP magic and transmit load balancing to achieve it. However the other devices on the network need to also have balance-alb to actually use 2Gbps or you'll still be limited to 1Gbps per device up to the number of NICs teamed (2 in this case).

 

Basically with NIC teaming you need end to end support else it won't work and most methods are designed for one-to-many connections or server-to-client.