Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI-X Adapter Network Card User Manual


 
60 Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X Adapter Installation and User’s Guide December 2005
To Configure Bonding for Multiple ixge
Interfaces
1. Modify /etc/modules.conf file by adding these lines:
Where:
bond0 is the bonding device.
max_bonds is the number of bond interfaces to be created.
mode specifies the bonding policies.
miimon is the frequency in milliseconds that MII link monitoring will occur.
Refer to Linux documentation for more information.
2. Load the bonding driver:
3. Configure bond0 interface.
In this example, bond0 is the master of the two interfaces eth2 and eth3.
alias bond0 bonding
options bonding max_bonds=2 mode=4 miimon=1000
# modprobe bonding
# ip addr add 192.12.38.64/24 brd + dev bond0
# ip link set dev bond0 up
# ifenslave bond0 eth2 eth3