I am building my personal private cloud. I am considering using second hand dell optiplexes as worker nodes, but they only have 1 NIC and I’d need a contraption like this for my redundant network.

Then this wish came to my mind. Theoretically, such a one box solution could be faster than gigabit too.

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    1 year ago

    I have been trying to do bonds with USB adapters and while it usually seems to work fine at first, they just seem to randomly drop out when run 24/7 so I stopped doing that. In theory it seems like a good idea though.

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      I have been trying to do bonds with USB adapters

      – If you’re doing it for performance, you should compare a low end 2.5gE switch and cards to all that complexity. Higher performance, simpler, more reliable

      – if it’s to learn about bonding, consider how many you need and whether doing the same thing multiple times is a benefit

      – if it’s for redundancy/reliability, I don’t think this is going to work. My plan is to build a cluster of single board computers and do everything in containers. Keep the apps portable and the hardware replaceable

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but you forgot about reusing perfectly good older 1gbit equipment with sufficient ports to do nice 4gbit bonds. I have been doing that with 4 port Intel NIC PCIe expansion cards for a while on those servers with free slots, but on those thin clients re-purposed as servers that is usually not the case.

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      I just have that happen in general with USB NICs. Random drops for seemingly no reason.

      They’re not meant for infrastructural use, just as travel adapters.