nic bonding Fedora 8

[Chris Snook]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:08 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> Yeah it's included, I use it all the time between GigE ports on my data 
>> servers.
>>
>>
> 
> Should the bond0 be controlled by NM or network?

Network.  Here's the bonding configuration (eth1 and eth2) on my F8 test box. 
You'll want to customize this.  There's good bonding documentation on 
kbase.redhat.com.  It was written for RHEL, but it applies to Fedora too.

-- Chris

[root at bernoulli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth1"
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=no
NETWORK=169.254.0.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=169.254.0.2

[root at bernoulli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=none
HWADDR=00:90:27:a3:7f:a0
SLAVE=yes
MASTER=bond0

[root at bernoulli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
# Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100
DEVICE=eth2
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=none
HWADDR=00:07:e9:17:8d:f7
SLAVE=yes
MASTER=bond0

[root at bernoulli ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter2 ahci
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias eth1 e100
alias eth2 e100
alias bond0 bonding