[lk] bonding | The Linux Foundation

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding Contents 1 Installation 1.1 Configure and build the kernel with bonding 1.2 Install ifenslave Control Utility 2 Bonding Driver Options 3 Configuring Bonding Devices 3.1 Configuration with sysconfig support 3.1.1 Using DHCP with sysconfig 3.1.2 Configuring Multiple Bonds with sysconfig 3.2 Configuration with initscripts support 3.2.1 Using DHCP with initscripts 3.2.2 Configuring Multiple Bonds with initscripts 3.3 Configuring Bonding with /etc/net 3.4 Configuring Bonding Manually 3.4.1 Configuring Multiple Bonds Manually 4 Querying Bonding Configuration 4.1 Bonding Configuration 4.2 Network configuration 5 Switch Configuration 6 802.1q VLAN Support 7 Link Monitoring 7.1 ARP Monitor Operation 7.2 Configuring Multiple ARP Targets 7.3 MII Monitor Operation 8 Potential Sources of Trouble 8.1 Adventures in Routing 8.2 Ethernet Device Renaming 8.3 Painfully Slow Or No Failed Link Detection By Miimon 9 SNMP agents 9.1 Promiscuous mode 10 Configuring Bonding for High Availability 10.1 High Availability in a Single Switch Topology 10.2 High Availability in a Multiple Switch Topology 10.2.1 HA Bonding Mode Selection for Multiple Switch Topology 10.2.2 HA Link Monitoring Selection for Multiple Switch Topology 11 Configuring Bonding for Maximum Throughput 11.1 Maximizing Throughput in a Single Switch Topology 11.1.1 MT Bonding Mode Selection for Single Switch Topology 11.1.2 MT Link Monitoring for Single Switch Topology 11.2 Maximum Throughput in a Multiple Switch Topology 11.2.1 MT Bonding Mode Selection for Multiple Switch Topology 11.2.2 MT Link Monitoring for Multiple Switch Topology 12 Switch Behavior Issues 12.1 Link Establishment and Failover Delays 12.2 Duplicated Incoming Packets 13 Hardware Specific Considerations 13.1 IBM BladeCenter 13.2 JS20 network adapter information 13.3 BladeCenter networking configuration 13.4 Requirements for specific modes 13.5 Link monitoring issues 13.6 Other concerns 14 Frequently Asked Questions 14.1 Is it SMP safe? 14.2 What type of cards will work with it? 14.3 How many bonding devices can I have? 14.4 How many slaves can a bonding device have? 14.5 What happens when a slave link dies? 15 Can bonding be used for High Availability? 16 Which switches/systems does it work with? 16.1 Where does a bonding device get its MAC address from? 17 Resources and Links 18 History