Exercise NIC/LOM Bonds on blade servers

[chuckk281]

Chris was looking to test the NIC bond functionality:

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I’m trying to find a way to test/exercise NIC Teams/Bonds. Linux is pretty straight forward, just write a simple script that will do an ifdown on ½ of the bond, then an ifup to  bring it back online.

Is there away to do the same thing in a Windows environment? Do we have any hooks in to our NCU that we could script to take one of the NICs off line in the team to test failover?

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Chad replied:

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You can use netsh to accomplish this, to disable one NIC at a time

netsh interface set interface <interface name> DISABLED

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Have you tried this? Any other suggestions?