slinuxuzer wrote: Correct me if i am wrong here, my understanding is that when I setup my san on its dedicated gigabit switch that in order to get the connection to my san box up to higher rates I need to use multiple nics and configure my ports to etherchannel? Is this correct and if so don't I have to configure this for the ports coming off my san box two / if I don't doesnt these make for 2gigabit link on the server side with only 1gigabit link on the san box side thereby limiting the connection to 1gigabit? thanks.