Round-robin bonding of two 100 Mbit NICs on Debian.
- Package:
ifenslave-2.6(Debian Wheezy repos). - Config:
/etc/network/interfaces.
Sometimes the module options have to be declared in a file under /etc/modprobe.d/ (for example bonding.conf); /etc/modules only lists the modules to load:
alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200
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/etc/network/interfaces
auto bond0 iface bond0 inet6 auto # optional, if you have IPv6 iface bond0 inet static address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 network XXX.XXX.XXX.0 gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX slaves eth0 eth1 bond_mode balance-rr # round-robin bond_miimon 100 bond_downdelay 200 bond_updelay 200
With a bridge (for XEN)
auto bond0 iface bond0 inet6 auto # optional, if you have IPv6 iface bond0 inet manual slaves eth0 eth1 bond_mode balance-rr bond_miimon 100 bond_downdelay 200 bond_updelay 200 auto xenbr0 iface xenbr0 inet static bridge_ports bond0 bridge_maxwait 2 address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 network XXX.XXX.XXX.0 gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
_Originally published in May 2013._