Hi Marek, Thank you very much for your help. But I am a little bit confused as I am new in Foreman Technology. So could you please type step by step (in a simple way) what should I do to configure the network according to my scenario.
Thanks in advance, Regards, Mostafa On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Marek Hulán <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 of July 2016 11:04:08 nilelinux . wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Please I have installed Foreman version 1.8.0 on CentOS 7.1. I > > could provision CentOS to a HP blade server which has 6 NICs but I don't > > know how to configure Bonding on these interfaces. I would like to use > > Forman to configure Bonding as the following:- > > > > Eth0 and Eth1 for Bond1 in VLAN 2 with subnet 192.168.2.0/24. > > Eth2 and Eth3 for Bond2 in VLAN 3 with subnet 192.168.3.0/24 . > > Eth4 and Eth5 for Bond3 in VLAN 4 with subnet 192.168.4.0/24 . > > > > As I am new in Foreman technology, Could you simplify how to configure > the > > Foreman to auto-configure the bonding. > > > > *Best Regards,* > > > > *Mostafa Yasin* > > Show trimmed content > > Hello, > > 1.8 is quite old version so I'd recommend updating to the most recent > version > first. > > But in general, you should define these interfaces in host form. To create > a > bond you have to define bonded interfaces first so create eth0 and eth1. > Then > create a new interface of type bond and use identifiers that you used for > eth0 > and eth1 as bonded devices. Since you want to also create a vlan on top of > the > bond, you have to define 4th vlan interface. To do it, keep type to > Interface > but set the identifier to bond0.1 assuming the bond identifier was set to > bond0. > Check virtual NIC checkbox and set the tag to 2 and attached to to bond0. > Repeat the steps above for all eth0-6, bond1-3 and vlans (bond1.2, bond2.3, > bond3.4) so 12 interfaces in total. Note that the networking info like > subnet, > IP etc should be configured on vlan interfaces only. Just the mac address > might > be needed on others. > > If you want to make an interface that is being used for provisioning also > part > of the bond, your switch should be configured to LACP passive since the > bond is > configure as the last step of the provisioning. In other words, your switch > must allow non-aggregated traffic for provisioning and aggregated traffic > for > communication afterwards. > > I'm not entirely sure if provisioning can work if it requires a > provisioning > interface traffic to be tagged. Maybe with native vlan. > > I'm not a network expert so I'm sorry if I misunderstood something. > > -- > Marek > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
