[CentOS] Interface bonding?

[Michael Simpson]

On 4/9/08, Timothy Selivanow <timothy.selivanow at virtualxistenz.com> wrote:
> I'm try to bond a few interfaces together with the hopes of getting
> increased throughput, and I'm using a cisco Catalyst 2900 as the switch.
> I've tried using mode 0, 5, and 6 with nothing special on the switch,
> and mode 4 with some ports "trunked" together (I have a feeling that the
> "trunking" that the 2900 does is not 802.3ad, as it disabled the ports
> it saw as redundant), yet xfer speeds always cap out at about 10MB/s.
>
> Has any body accomplished bonding with increased throughput as the goal,
> with or without (without might be preferable) doing something special on the switch (preferably the
> afore-mentioned Catalyst 2900, as that is what I have to work with as a
> non-sactioned side-project ;)?
>
>
> --Tim
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Hi there

As another person with cisco certs that aren't being used i wondered
about the port being switched off which sounds like a spanning-tree
issue.

/me dredging up heavily repressed stuff from the BCMSN

Certainly the 2900 will support 802.3ad or LACP natively.

i found this which may be of use

<http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Cisco+Systems+IOS-based+switches-+interface+bonding+and+trunking?t=anon>

mike