10 Jan

Ethernet bounding on ubuntu server

By Acang

bounding ethernet is combine two or more ethernet card to one virtual ethernet, which is the speed of network is combine, if each ethernet is 100Mbps, then two ethernet card become 200Mbps, this article show you how to create ethernet bounding on ubuntu server.

hope this article help you

Step by step

  1. install bounding ethernet package
  2. configure bounding ethernet

1. install bounding ethernet package

apt-get install ifenslave

2. configure bounding ethernet

edit your /etc/network/interface to be like this below
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 10.10.10.254
broadcast 10.255.255.255
network 10.0.0.0
netmask 255.0.0.0
post-up ifenslave bond0 eth1 eth2

then run this "modprobe bonding mode=6 miimon=100"

thats it, you have ethernet bounding on linux

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