any tool to help configure bonding?

Tue Feb 24 17:38:26 UTC 2009

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>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:28:37 +0100
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>Subject: any tool to help configure bonding?
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>Hi all,

>Im trying to configure 2 ethernet cards to use bonding to increase the
>throughput.

>I´m using /usr/share/doc/iputils-20020927/README.bonding to learn how to do
>it, but I have a question

>With system-config-network is it posible to do it? or I have to manually
>edit the files in /etc/sysconfig/

>Thanks

There's nothing that I know of in RH 3, 4 and 5, but this could help you speed things up a bit:

# Steps to create ifcfg-bond0 file
touch /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
echo "DEVICE=bond0" > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
echo "USERCTL=no" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
echo "ONBOOT=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
grep BROADCAST /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
grep NETWORK /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
grep NETMASK /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
grep IPADDR /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0