“Cent” shared storage for mac success.

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Mikhial –

1) on the HP Procurve 1800G-24 switch, did you use the CLI commands to create the link aggregate port, or did you use the GUI (graphical user interface) to create the link aggregate ?

2) You have a PC as the server, but you have MAC’s as the clients. Are you using Apple’s SMB network format, or are you using Thursby DAVE ? Because Apple’s AFP doesn’t work.

3) How did you enable jumbo frames on the PC. To get 93mb/sec write, you can’t do this with regular SMB – at least, I could not get this to work at this speed (not even with DAVE).

Bob Zelin

[Walter Soyka]

I don’t think he’s using SMB at all — netatalk is an open-source AFP server.

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[Mikhail Puzyrev]

Hello Bob

1. On the procurve it is very easy to setup link aggregation using web GUI, it has a preset address 192.168.2.10

2. Macs use native afp, they see server as mac server, because on the server side (which you call PC – linux (centos 5.5)) I have installed Netatalk – which is linux implementation of Appletalk. It was the hardest part for me and I still wonder how it works ))))). https://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

3. Firs I checked intel.com if the network card supports jumbo frames. Then either use linux GUI network administration to set the MTU of single network cards. In case of link aggregation – it’s called “bond” when linuxed )) You have to do some typing work – there are files at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, …eth1, …eth2,…eth3 etc. You should create new text file with the name ifcfg-bond0 and set MTU=9000 or whatever You want there. It will override MTU settings of the bond members mtu. For different linuxes this procedure slightly different. I used this guide –
https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces-chan.html

[Bob Zelin]

you are a smart guy Mikhail, I am very impressed.
If everyone was as smart as you, I would be out of business.

Bob Zelin

[Mikhail Puzyrev]

Thank You Bob! Actually it’s Google, I’m colorist and broadcast designer running small design boutique. One month ago I knew only “ls” and “cd” commands. I couldn’t afford hiring another guy to do it, so just started to google and to read articles – and it appeared not very difficult. But time consuming ).