Hello all,
I'm wondering if there's any interest in trying to bond em1 and eth0 (respectively wired and wireless interfaces here), and if any, how to do it in CentOS6.
I've found this, which could possibly help (but I'm failing yet): http://r.outlyer.net/linux:bonding https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding Both are dealing w/ ifenslave.
Any experience or point of view on this topic?
For now, and without any change to the CentOS network config, I have my wired and wireless ifaces up at the same time, same IP (thanks for the DHCP config running on my router), but apparently only the wired one is taking into account in the routing table (if I understand), until I undock the laptop and run on the wireless one):
route -n
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 em1 <- wired 10.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 eth0 <- wireless 0.0.0.0 10.0.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 em1 <- 10.0.2.1 is my router
I'm a complete newbie to bonding, so please forgive any non-sense I could have written here!
Regards,
On 04/30/2016 01:26 PM, wwp wrote:
I'm wondering if there's any interest in trying to bond em1 and eth0 (respectively wired and wireless interfaces here), and if any, how to do it in CentOS6.
You might be able to round-robin your outgoing packets, but without support on the upstream switch, you won't improve your inbound bandwidth. Unless your bandwidth needs are primarily transmission, this may not be worth the effort.
Hello Gordon,
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:30 -0700 Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/30/2016 01:26 PM, wwp wrote:
I'm wondering if there's any interest in trying to bond em1 and eth0 (respectively wired and wireless interfaces here), and if any, how to do it in CentOS6.
You might be able to round-robin your outgoing packets, but without support on the upstream switch, you won't improve your inbound bandwidth. Unless your bandwidth needs are primarily transmission, this may not be worth the effort.
Interesting, thanks for replying! I'll dig on the switch side (a Netgear GS108e prosafe plus v2). At the moment I'm reading the product docs but there's a lot of terms (about product features) I don't even know so it seems I'm at the start of a learning curve :-).
Regards,
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