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Questions tagged [bonding]

"bonding" is the Linux-term for link aggregation.

Cisco terminiolgy is "etherchannel", other vendors may talk about "trunking".

The idea is to use several pyhsical lines in the same (sub)network or VLAN and load-balance the traffic across these lines.

To make it work both "ends" need to use the same LB-mode.

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link aggregation in esxi5 + aggregation on the switch + freebsd9 = an aggregated link that do not work

i have a 6 port intel server nic. under the settings on ESXi5, i aggregated 4 of the ports. i have ZFSGuru running on the VM, which is based off of FreeBSD 9, iirc. this VM has two interfaces, an e1000/em0 and a vxmnet2/vxn0. initially, i did…
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Is it possible to boost my server's LAN bandwidth with two Ethernet ports?

Is it possible to boost my server's LAN bandwidth with two Ethernet ports? I have two Ethernet ports on my Dell PowerEdge SC1435 and I routed both eth0 and eth1 to my router, but for some reason I'm only seeing one of the ports (eth0) getting an IP…
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Bonding Virtual Server with an Apache Proxy Gateway

I have two situations. Individually they work great, but together, the system will not resolve my websites. A general overview of my test environment: Proxmox VE server that has multiple VMs for different websites and a gateway VM that will redirect…
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How does NIC bonding in Linux work?

Entry in Wikipedia about NIC-bonding (active-backup): Active-backup (active-backup) Only one NIC slave in the bond is active. A different slave becomes active if, and only if, the active slave fails. When NIC1(master) and NIC2(slave) are in…
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Link aggregation in ESXi 5.5

I have a virtual machine on my ESXi server with Ubuntu installed on it. The server has 4 1Gb/s ports that I want to use them all for my virtual machine. An obvious (yet kinda stupid) way would be creating four vswitchs, four ethernet controllers for…
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networking - Dedicated NIC for different traffic

I have two servers which acts as a reverse proxy which accept incoming requests from internet and passes on to application servers, then responses from the application servers are then served to the clients. Each server has two NICs configured for…
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Can I use a server to employ link aggregation between 2 unmanaged switches

From everything I read, If I wish to use link aggregation between 2 switches, they need to be managed switches--specifically, they need to support 802.3d spec. Now that I fully understand the difference between a network bridge and a bond, can I use…
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Is Teaming with one Network Card possible?

If my Network Card has 4 ports can I do teaming (LBFO) ? Or I need to have two Network Cards ?
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Combining Network Connections for Additive Speed

Edit: I've removed the errors I was receiving while starting the bond by using the teamd utility. However, my goal to increase the total speed by combining the networks is still open. Skip down to EDIT2 below if interested. I may delete in between…
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