With the current talk on bonding, I have a few questions of my own.
I'm setting up a KVM host with CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on which I'd like to attach the VMs to a bonded interface. My target setup is one where two GigE NICs are bonded and then the KVM bridge interface is attached to the bonded interface.
Initially I tried to use the balance-alb mode (mode6), but had little luck (receiving traffic on the bond appeared to be non-functional from the perspective of a VM). After some reading [0] [1] - I switched the mode to balance-tlb (mode5) and hosts are now reachable.
See bottom of [0] for a note on "known ARP problem for bridge on a bonded interface".
I'd prefer mode5 or 6 since it would balance between my slave interfaces and need not worry about 802.3ad support (mode4) on the switch this host will be connected to. But the way it seems mode 6 isn't going to work out for me. (Maybe experimenting with mode4 is the way to go.)
[0] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO_BONDING [1] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2007-April/005376.html
My question to the members of this list is what bonding mode(s) are you using for a high availability setup? I welcome any advice/tips/gotchas on bridging to a bonded interface.
Thanks! ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //