I just redid my DSS for autofailover and I have 2 bonded 1gb nics for replication (Using 802.3as point to point, no switch). I fired up 4 large initial replication tasks and its going to take several hours.

I looked at the network statistics for the 2 bonded 1Gb nics and saw the bond was getting 100 mbs. looked at the individual ethernet ports that were in the bond and one was doing 100 mbs and the other was doing nothing.

Does bonding work with replication or is it a waste of resources?

I have all the 4 replication tasks set to 40 mbs and it appears each is using about 25-30 mbs when I look at the replication tasks.

Would increasing that bandwidth number have it start using that second nic?

Thanks!