[Cialug] NIC Bonding under Linux/Debian

[John Roach]

Because of mod load order, try adding the  dhclient bond0 command to 
rc.local. It sounds like the bonding mod has not started by the time the 
system does its inital net config.


Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I'm working on setting up NIC bonding on a Debian machine using several different pages I found via Google.
>
> I'm hopeful that Bonding will give me more throughput and fault tolerance.
>
> The configuration below seems to work, but it does not work automatically.  During boot the bond0 interface seems to time out during DHCP.  But once I login I can enter 'dhclient bond0' and it picks up an address and seems to be ready to go.  I shouldn't have to add dhclient to the interfaces file should I?  
>
> Anybody have a working 'bonding' interfaces file they could share?  Are there any better modes or techniques for bonding I should look at instead?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Nate
>
>
> This is what I have in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
>
> alias bond0 bonding
> alias eth0 sky2
> alias eth1 sky2
> options bonding mode=0 miimon=100
>
>
> I'm wondering about some of the directives in the interfaces file, here is an excerpt:
>
> allow-hotplug eth0
> allow-hotplug eth1
> auto bond0
> iface bond0 inet dhcp
> pre-up ifconfig bond0 up
> up ifenslave bond0 eth1 eth0
>
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