Nic bonding

[ScottLClement]

I have a DL580 with 2 dual nic pci networking cards (intel gb) in it. I want to do bonding with all 4 ports. Any one have a procedure for this?

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

It's pretty simple actually,
here's a step by step guide:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/cluster-suite/s1-hardware-connect.html

[rick jones]

Somewhere under /usr/share (IIRC) there will be a document called "bonding.txt" which describes the bonding driver and the options it takes. Depending on your situation, some options are more apropriate than others, so letting us know a bit more about the impetus behind your desire to bond the ports could be helpful.

[ScottLClement]

1 thing I failed to mention is this is RHEL 4

[Stuart Browne]

/usr/share/doc/iputils-20020927/README.bonding

that's from an RHEL4U4 box.

It has the instructions on how to configure it up.

You want to read it from the 'Bond Configuration' section.

The URL above provides a summary of this document.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

In the link I gave you, the only difference to take in mind when you work on RHEL 4 is that instead editing /etc/modules.conf - edit /etc/modprobe.conf.
Everything else is the same.