https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/load-balancing-for-bond/m-p/4494874#M38199 Hi All,<BR />I installed RHEL 5.3 and creatd a bond0 with eth0 and eth4 nic cards. Now I need to create load balancing for eth0 ad eth4. Can anyone please give the necesary steps for that? Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:58:09 GMT Vinus_1 2009-09-10T05:58:09Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/load-balancing-for-bond/m-p/4494874#M38199 Hi All,<BR />I installed RHEL 5.3 and creatd a bond0 with eth0 and eth4 nic cards. Now I need to create load balancing for eth0 ad eth4. Can anyone please give the necesary steps for that? Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:58:09 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/load-balancing-for-bond/m-p/4494874#M38199 Vinus_1 2009-09-10T05:58:09Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/load-balancing-for-bond/m-p/4494875#M38200 Load balancing can be achieved by selecting a correct mode for your bond0.<BR /><BR />Make sure you have the "kernel-doc" package installed, then read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt on your system.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-16008" target="_blank">http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-16008</A><BR /><BR />Add something like "options bond0 mode=<MODE-NUMBER>" to /etc/modprobe.conf, then reboot (or have the bonding driver unloaded &amp; reloaded in any other way).<BR /><BR />Mode 4 (802.3ad) requires support (and usually some configuration) from the other endpoint of the bond. <BR /><BR />Other modes require no special support, but if your network has security features to prevent IP address hijacking, they may be incompatible with some of the load balancing modes. <BR /><BR />MK</MODE-NUMBER> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:41:06 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/load-balancing-for-bond/m-p/4494875#M38200 Matti_Kurkela 2009-09-10T06:41:06Z