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"bonding" is the Linux-term for link aggregation.

Cisco terminiolgy is "etherchannel", other vendors may talk about "trunking".

The idea is to use several pyhsical lines in the same (sub)network or VLAN and load-balance the traffic across these lines.

To make it work both "ends" need to use the same LB-mode.

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Why do I can't see the bond created by systemd service

I have created systemd service to create a bond, and confirmed it's created successfully from the output in the logs, but I can not see the bond in my current shell. mlx_bonding.service [Unit] Description=Create bonding with…
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Error while creating a bonding interface

I have a problem with creating a bonding interface on Debian 10.11. What I did was install ifenslave and then stop networking. I edited /etc/network/interfaces as below: #WiFi Interface auto mlan0 iface mlan0 inet manual bond-master bond0 …
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Two bonded 10Gb nics on an ESXi guest OS not using full bandwidth

On an ESXi guest machine, with Ubuntu 18.04 operating system, two nics connected from two difference vswitch, each of them has a separate 10Gb uplink. I made a bonded nic from these two links with balance-rr and balance-alb modes. When testing the…
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Bonding 802.3ad Ubuntu 20.04 and Aruba 6300M

I have a problem with bonding mode 802.3ad between Ubuntu 20.04.3 and switch aruba 6300m. Any problems : The bonding work fine but after a reboot i need to shut / no shut my lag on 6300M switch for "actualize" the bonding. After that it's work fine.…
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How to improve TCP tolerance to out-of-order delivery in Linux balance-rr bonds and/or FreeBSD roundrobin laggs?

I have 3 servers networ kwise configured as follows A is a DELL R710 is running Linux 5.13.19-1-pve Proxmox VE 7.1 and has 4 NICs teamed in a balance-rr mode bond. B is a DELL R610 is running Linux 5.13.19-1-pve Proxmox VE 7.1 and has 4 NICs teamed…
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Bonding two NICs on ubuntu - each one is connected to different subnet with internet connection

I am struggling with this for over a week. I am new to the networking so I am learning everything from the start past few days. I am in need to implement seamless switch between two network interfaces. For example I have one internal network wifi in…
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Can LACP run over Linux tunnel devices?

I'm looking for a way to know if a tunnel device is up or down without needing to use ping myself. Every single tunnel device (gre, ipip, l2tp, geneve, etc) does not have a logical mechanism to decide if the tunnel is up or down, it is determined by…
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Ethernet bond interface fails after NIC replacement

I've replaced a failing 10GbE adapter in a Dell PowerEdge server running a bonded pair of Cat6 cables to an aggregate switch. The old NIC and its replacement are both Intel Ethernet Controllers (10-Gigabit X540-AT2) so I assumed (probably…
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Bonding NIC on VM

I have an ESXi server with a DS switch configured with LACP and lag uplink with 2x10G port on the switch I'm wondering if I give 2 10G interfaces on my VM can I bond them and use that 20G uplink? I have one VM on my ESXi host.
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Why does my bond interface with multiq ignore tc's queue selection?

On Debian Buster, Kernel 5.4.51, I have two interfaces tap0 and tap1 joined in a bond interface in mode balance-xor to increase throughput. There is, however, some traffic that must be sent through tap0. For the rest I don't care. Theoretically, the…
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Forwarding bonded connection to local network through stateful firewall - ArchLinux

I'm using Arch Linux to set up a firewall for a school which will stream each classes' video to students at home, so I need a strong and safe connection, that's why I was thinking about bonding multiple connections to increase stability and stream's…
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rtk8192ee wifi firmare stops loading after ifenslave setup attempt (Debian 10)

I tried setting up Mode 0 NIC bonding using ifenslave between my Ethernet and WiFi cards on Debian 10. After numerous ifconfig wls1 up/down, I was able to set up Bond0 until it stopped working. After undoing the setup, I realized ifconfig wls1 up…
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Redundant Mikrotik switch bonding modes

All the posts I can find about redundant switches only address the servers connected to the switches. I need to confirm my configuration on both the servers and the router handling the traffic. We're using Mikrotik routers and switches and I'm…
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No connection to default gateway

I freshly installed a new ubuntu server and set up netplan for 802.3ad. Now I can reach every device in my network but not the gateway and therefor the internet. The server is directly plugged into the gateway (like every other device). I don't have…
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linux router, 2x NIC, HA with interface bonding, two ethernet switches

I have two NIC server (eth0, eth1) that I use as router. I have two switches working in stack. Is it a good idea / possible to create on them two bond lacp interfaces ( bond0, bond1 ). And use bond0 and bond1 as I now use eth0 (as external…
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