[CentOS] Configure LAGG Interface?

Mon Aug 6 19:34:43 UTC 2012
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 06.08.2012 19:44, schrieb Rainer Duffner:
> 
> Am 06.08.2012 um 19:22 schrieb Cal Sawyer <cal-s at blue-bolt.com>:
> 
>> In my experience, LAG/LACP won't provide aggregatation, only failover
>> and fault tolerance.  For link aggregation, you don't need to configure
>> the switch ports - just set bonding to mode=6 for balanced
>> transmit/receive and plug up the the NICs to a group of ports on the
>> switch.  However, balance-alb doesn't help with single stream rsync/FTP
>> sessions, etc, but helps a lot with concurrent transmits/receives as
>> encountered in typical fileserver scenarios.
>>
> 
> 
> On FreeBSD, you don't get 2*1 Gbit from A to B, but 1*1 Gbit from A to B and another 1*1 Gbit from C to B.
> "B" being the server with the LAGG interface.
> 
> How is that in CentOS?

It is of course the same, as long as we speak about standardized 802.3ad
protocol.

Alexander