On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:31:27 -0500, Dave Augustus <davea(a)support.kcm.org>
wrote:
Just saw this in one of my servers in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias bond0 bonding
alias bond1 bonding
options bonding mode=active-backup max_bonds=2
Here is the explanation of the bonding modes:
# bonding modes:
# 0 sets a round-robin policy for fault tolerance (FT) and load
balancing (LB)
# 1 sets an active-backup policy for FT
# 2 sets an xor (exclusive-or) policy for FT and LB
# 3 sets a broadcast policy for FT
# 4 sets an IEEE 802.3ad dynamig link aggregation policy
# 5 sets a transmit load balancing (TLB) policy for FT and LB
# 6 sets an active load balancing (ALB) policy for FT and LB
#
There are a few more options than even this, for instance in our configs
where we have active-backup we specifically set which nic is the primary
interface. Not sure if we want to account for all possible options, but
there are more.
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