Ethernet Bonding

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Ethernet Bonding
The Linux bonding driver provides the ability to combine multiple network interface into a single interface to give additional functionailty to the network adapters such as failover or load balancing. Example: A machine has two NIC ports (eth0 and eth1), we want to bond them together for failover. 1. Modify eth0 and eth1 configuration files to specify the bond master connection
vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=01:16:XX:22:12:85 USERCTL=yes ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=01:16:XX:22:12:86 USERCTL=yes ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 2. Create a new configuration file for the bonding interface vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 DEVICE=bond0 IPADDR=192.168.1.20 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes PEERDNS=yes The bonding drivers are available on most distributions of Linux, to enable the driver modify /etc/modprobe.conf and add the following lines alias bond0 bonding options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1 There are 6 different modes to choose from, this documentation on Cyberciti gives more details on this To install the driver use the following command: modprobe bonding Restart the ethernet devices service network restart Type ifconfig and you should see bond0 as the first interface. Back to Resources

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3/2/2012