RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2

[james-p at moving-picture.com (James Pearson)]

ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif wrote:
> Thanks Robin,
> 
> 
>>here is a sample. If you want to use tagged vlans it will be 
>>slightly different. Let me know if you want a tagged vlan sample.
> 
> 
> 
> Followed you samples and team is working just fine now.
> Tested both nics for failover and never lost a ping.
> 
> One question : Could you configure both interfaces so you could bind
> bandwith of both interfaces  and still have failover?
> 

Use 'mode=6' as the bonding option - doesn't need any special switch 
support.

There are other modes - look in Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 
(available in the kernel-sourcecode RPM)

James Pearson