Linksys wrt1200ac router switch throughput?

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So, I had this thought that it would be cool to setup a NAS box, with maybe zfs raid10 (2 mirror vdevs in a pool that is), or maybe btrfs + raid10.

I have a Linksys wrt1200ac router. With OpenWRT, I thought, could maybe setup ethernet bonding, connecting 2 of the ports on the built in switch to 2 ports on the NAS box, both sides set to do ethernet bonding.

That would leave 2 ethernet ports that could go to 2 devices, plus of course the wifi for other devices. My thinking being that if there are multiple users on the network moving bits to/from the NAS, it would go a bit faster using 2x ethernet ports bonded.

But, then I got to thinking, I have no idea if the processor on the wrt1200ac is really fast enough to effectively saturate multiple gigabit ethernet ports + wifi. Anyone ever tried this? Is the even worthwhile, or is there essentially zero benefit from doing 2x bonded ether with that router?

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The Ethernet switch is independent hardware from the CPU, and it is fast enough to move LAN to LAN traffic at wire speed.

I don't know if any sort of bonding is supported though.

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this. bonding/aggregation sounds great in theory... but reality and hardware limitations usually have enough gremlins to make the gains minimal at best.

active/standby(backup) style redundant schemes are beneficial... and often don't need anything special on the switch... especially if your running things like iscsi or databases.

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I don't know if it can simultaneously saturate multiple ports, but I use a WRT1200AC as an iperf3 server on the public segment of my network between my router and modem to test QOS setup. It doesn't even break a sweat at wire speed on one interface

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In order to bond two ports, you need to move the traffic from the (fast) switch to the (slow) CPU... I bet this will decrease the speed.

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