[CentOS] Bonding wired and wireless ifaces

Sun May 1 07:55:04 UTC 2016
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello Gordon,


On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:30 -0700 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/30/2016 01:26 PM, wwp wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there's any interest in trying to bond em1 and eth0
> > (respectively wired and wireless interfaces here), and if any, how to
> > do it in CentOS6.  
> 
> 
> You might be able to round-robin your outgoing packets, but without support on the upstream switch, you won't improve your inbound bandwidth.  Unless your bandwidth needs are primarily transmission, this may not be worth the effort.

Interesting, thanks for replying! I'll dig on the switch side (a
Netgear GS108e prosafe plus v2). At the moment I'm reading the
product docs but there's a lot of terms (about product features) I
don't even know so it seems I'm at the start of a learning curve :-).


Regards,

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wwp
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