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AIX and VIO Server testing results for network bandwidth on an E880 for the internal vSwitch and external 1Gbit and 10Gbit switches. Tests include LPAR network bandwidth for core to core, chip to chip and node to node configurations. more »

AIX Virtual Ethernet Adapters have a setting called mtu_bypass - This allows the AIX networking stack to combine many smaller TCP segments in to one larger 64Kb segment for sending to the VIO Servers SEA Adapter and the SEA Adapter can send up to 64Kb segments back to the LPAR. more »