[CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, James Pearson wrote:

> ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif wrote:
>> Thanks Robin,
>> 
>> 
>>> here is a sample. If you want to use tagged vlans it will be slightly 
>>> different. Let me know if you want a tagged vlan sample.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Followed you samples and team is working just fine now.
>> Tested both nics for failover and never lost a ping.
>> 
>> One question : Could you configure both interfaces so you could bind
>> bandwith of both interfaces  and still have failover?
>> 
>
> Use 'mode=6' as the bonding option - doesn't need any special switch support.
>
> There are other modes - look in Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 
> (available in the kernel-sourcecode RPM)
>
mode=x is something I have not had a chance to experiment with. I have 
read the Documentation, but without actually testing each option I cannot 
decide what is the best for my situation. I would like to double my 
capacity as well as providing a failover so that if one link dies the 
other will still work.