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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 |
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Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: |
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> > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? |
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> > > Anybody konw how to do a thing like that? |
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> > First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port |
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> > card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your |
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> > config and perform better. |
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> Yup, bonding is really cool, and trivially simple to setup. |
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> Enable CONFIG_BONDING as a module, in "Network device support". |
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> Install ifenslave, then edit /etc/modules.d/bond, like this: |
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> alias bond1 bonding |
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> options bond1 mode=1 miimon=100 max_bonds=5 |
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> You probably want mode 0, I use mode 1 for redundancy only. Then |
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> change your net config to something like this: |
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> config_eth0=( "null" ) |
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> config_eth4=( "null" ) |
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> RC_NEED_bond1="net.eth0 net.eth4" |
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> slaves_bond1="eth0 eth4" |
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> config_bond1=( "192.168.1.1/24" ) |
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> Then you use bondX from then on (no net.ethX should be in any |
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> runlevel). |
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Thanks for the quick howto. I'm running through it now. |
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