Comments on: How to configure network bonding in Linux

By: Linux Ethernet Bonding – WTF?! « Bill Sigmund

Linux Ethernet Bonding – WTF?! « Bill Sigmund — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:51:56 +0000

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By: darkfader

darkfader — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:35:09 +0000

for scaling above 1gbit between two hosts:

hash by src-ip – dst-ip-port – some switches can do that.

also note that the bonding driver in centos5 / rhel5 is said to be not smp-capable, bringing in its’ own performance issues (see the presentation about mysql by facebook)

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:04:42 +0000

Great how-to.
Daniel, as I understand it, you’re not going to get a 2gig session, however if someone else connects to the same endpoint as you at or near the same time, I believe that their session/connection will go over the unused 1gig line. so instead of both of you clogging up one port, you’ll be split and each able to have your own port. Any successive connections will probably be determined by the OS.

By: Daniel Feenberg

Daniel Feenberg — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:51:47 +0000

Before I try this – I have a question. Will it allow a single process to transfer data over both ports to a single destination? That is, if I have 2 gigabit ports and want to copy a file will the copy use both ports and possibly go at more than 1 gigabit per second? Or is the selection of a port deterministic and the transfer will use only one port?

Thanks for any guidance.
Dan Feenberg
NBER

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:28:34 +0000

Thank you. This was exactly what I was looking for. Very clear and easy to follow. Bonding/aggregating links to my storage node has solved a mysterious dying port problem on my powerconnect switch. Cheers.

By: AntoineM

AntoineM — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:27:00 +0000

Hello,

there is a problem in the file modprobe.conf, you write “options bond0..” but it is “options bonding…”

thanks for this howto