Nic Bonding in Centos 6 Print

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Depending on what bond mode you choose, certain modes only have to have changes on the server side, not the switch side.

Below is the server side configuration for mode 6.

When combining nics eth0 and eth1 into a bonded nic port channel do the following.

1)
Add/Edit the BOND configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.122.12
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.122.1
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no


2) Empty the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and add the following:
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none


3) Empty the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file and add the following:
DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none


***Note, if NM_CONTROLLED is set, you should strictly define your HWADDR entries too at this step, for each interface. I did not do this in my configuration above.

3) Create the bond configuration file at: /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf  and add in:

aliasbond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=6 miimon=100downdelay=200updelay=200

4) Your done, restart networking:
service network restart

5) Check your bond configuration via:
ifconfig

and 
cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0


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