10GB ethernet in failover lagg performs a 1/2 speed

aviegas

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Hi there!

I'm building a new server with 4 NICS: 2 Intel 10GB X550T and 2 Intel 1GB 8271.

I'm bundling the 2 10GB in a failover lagg. If I test the connection with iperf and iperf3 (tried both) from either a Linux box or a Mac mini (both at the same 10G switch) I'm only getting a little over 4GB.

But, if a delete the lagg and assign the same IP address to one of the interfaces and repeat the test I get close to 10G (9.46GB in average) that is the same that I get between the Linux and Mac boxes.

In short: if the interface is on a failover lagg, I'm only getting 1/2 of the bandwidth.

Am I missing something like a tunable?

Thanks for any advice.
 
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