On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, James Pearson wrote:
> 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)
>
mode=x is something I have not had a chance to experiment with. I have
read the Documentation, but without actually testing each option I cannot
decide what is the best for my situation. I would like to double my
capacity as well as providing a failover so that if one link dies the
other will still work.
