network interface aggregation\bonding

[Paul Preston]

Hi Dean,

The whole idea of bonding/interface teaming is to provide high resiliency - yes, you can bond multiple interfaces into multiple groups and connect them to various switches. Obviously, if you connect bondX interface which consists of 4 physical interfaces to 2 switches (2 physical connections per switch) you will need to make sure that all ports on both switches are configured in the same way (which normally means that they should be in the same VLAN). In terms of aggregation, please read about "bonding drivers modes" - that should help to find what you are looking for.

I would recommend reading installation guide and deployment guide from following link:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/

Kind Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dean Thompson
Sent: 10 May 2011 15:55
To: redhat list
Subject: network interface aggregation\bonding

Hi all

I am relatively new to RHEL. We have a few implementations of network aggregation with fail-over configured on some of our Solaris servers and I'm looking into whether we can implement similar configs on a RHEL 5.5 server.

Is it possible for only certain nics\drivers?
Can it be configured across multiple switches? i.e. If I have four nics, can I group two in an aggregation group and connect it to one switch and group the other two in another aggregation group and connect it to a different switch, having only one group connected at a time with the other as a fail-over.

Regards
Dean
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