Because a given CIFS session is visible to only one node, the SMB3 client can be allowed to bind the session to the connections that are established to the LIFs hosted on only that node. Refer to Conf...Because a given CIFS session is visible to only one node, the SMB3 client can be allowed to bind the session to the connections that are established to the LIFs hosted on only that node. Refer to Configure SMB Multichannel for performance and redundancy for the expected number of simultaneous connections in an SMB session. If the number of connections per session match with what was found in the reference document in step 4, SMB Multichannel is in use by the client.