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Questions tagged [bonding]

"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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Link aggregation in ESXi 5.5

I have a virtual machine on my ESXi server with Ubuntu installed on it. The server has 4 1Gb/s ports that I want to use them all for my virtual machine. An obvious (yet kinda stupid) way would be creating four vswitchs, four ethernet controllers for…
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networking - Dedicated NIC for different traffic

I have two servers which acts as a reverse proxy which accept incoming requests from internet and passes on to application servers, then responses from the application servers are then served to the clients. Each server has two NICs configured for…
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Can I use a server to employ link aggregation between 2 unmanaged switches

From everything I read, If I wish to use link aggregation between 2 switches, they need to be managed switches--specifically, they need to support 802.3d spec. Now that I fully understand the difference between a network bridge and a bond, can I use…
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Is Teaming with one Network Card possible?

If my Network Card has 4 ports can I do teaming (LBFO) ? Or I need to have two Network Cards ?
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Combining Network Connections for Additive Speed

Edit: I've removed the errors I was receiving while starting the bond by using the teamd utility. However, my goal to increase the total speed by combining the networks is still open. Skip down to EDIT2 below if interested. I may delete in between…
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