[CentOS] Interface bonding?

[John]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:47 -0700, Timothy Selivanow 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 ;)?
> 

IEEE 802.1Q trunking Supported. 
Cisco IOS Release 11.2(8)SA5
(Enterprise Edition Software)

Inter-Switch Link (ISL) trunking
Cisco IOS Release 11.2(8)SA4
(Enterprise Edition Software)

set fastether-options 802.3ad   (((try that)))? 

I have a Cisco Cert but that does not mean anything. Have not worked on
ciso equipment in over 4 years.
> 
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