Ethernet Bonding HowTo's

Network interface bonding

Bonding is a way for a linux server with 2 network cards to share a virtual interface which represents both real interfaces. I'm not sure if you get a boost in throughput or if it is only failover. On a redhat ES4 server, all I did was edit these files and reboot (the modules were alredy loadable by the kernel):

modprobe.conf
ifcfg-eth0
ifcfg-eth1
ifcfg-bond0 (I made this one, as per instructions)

Snipits (all you need to add before rebooting):

From - modprobe.conf ->

###BEGIN AJEET'S BONDING
probeall bond0 eth0 eth1 bonding
alias bond0 bonding
options bonding miimon=100 mode=1
###END AJEET'S BONDING


From -> ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

From -> ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

From -> ifcfg-bond0

DEVICE=bond0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
NETMASK=255.255.254.0
BROADCAST=10.200.58.255
GATEWAY=10.200.58.1
IPADDR=10.200.58.21