[CentOS-docs] suggestion for HOWTO: bonding multiple NICs

Thu Oct 7 23:19:18 UTC 2010
Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  a student in my RHEL admin class this week specifically asked how to
> use multiple NICs to add fault tolerance.  a good question, i thought.
> perhaps adding a short HOWTO on that wouldn't be out of line,
> something like this:
>
> http://www.how2centos.com/how-to-set-up-network-bonding-with-centos-5x/
>
>  i could even add that as a lab for future classes, where i simply
> add two USB network adapters to the student's machine and make it an
> exercise to set up bonding across them.  just a thought.

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces does exist, you
may want to put it in sync and check for accuracy as it seems to deal
with CentOS 4 only.

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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina