NIC Teaming

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Leaving the values won't confuse the bonding driver. I leave them
specifically because that helps to tie down interface so they are always
the same. eth0 will thus always be the same physical interface and so
on.

Can you point me to the documentation that supports removing hwaddr
lines... It is also likely that the manipulation of configuration files
differs from distro to distro...

The bonding driver documentation states that you can specify options for
the bond interface in the ifcfg-bondX file but that has not been the
case for me. I still have to specify options in the /etc/modprobe.conf
file.

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Simpson
> Sent: 31 March 2008 13:35
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: NIC Teaming
> 
> On 3/27/08, Gerrard Geldenhuis <Gerrard.Geldenhuis at datacash.com>
wrote:
> > Hi Vivek,
> > It is also called bonding which might yield better results in
google.
> >
> > It is actually very simple:
> > Create a new file called ifcfg-bond0 in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
> > with the following data inside:
> > DEVICE=bond0
> > BOOTPROTO=static
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > IPADDR=Your ip here
> > NETMASK=Your netmask here
> >
> > In the interface that you want as part of the bond edit the
appropriate
> > file. For example ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth2 which can also be found
in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
> >
> > You should edit out the ip address and netmask. Make sure the
bootproto
> > is none, keep the hardware address, add slave=yes and add
master=bond0
> >
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > HWADDR=AA:AA:C4:BE:AA:AA
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > SLAVE=yes
> > MASTER=bond0
> >
> 
> Hi there
> 
> i thought that you were meant to remove the HWADDR= lines from
> ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 as bonding manipulates these values to make
> the necessary arp magic work.
> 
> the documentation seems to support this view.
> 
> mike
> 
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