interface bond

[Steve Jardine]

Did you take a look at:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-driver-howto.php

It might help.. 

I have more about trunking/bonding around here somewhere.. I will forward it if I find it..


On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:15:44 -0500
Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

> I bond the two network interfaces on the server. It looks working : the 
> bond interface is up, the router shows the etherchannel is up, I can 
> access the server.
> 
> But how do I find out the interface properties ? I tried mii-tool and 
> ethtool and they show too little and wrong:
> 
> [root at coke2 ~]# ifconfig bond0
> bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:C9:B2:E5:D9
>            inet addr:192.168.249.228  Bcast:192.168.249.255  		 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::21e:c9ff:feb2:e5d9/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:112885 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:2234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:9292331 (8.8 MiB)  TX bytes:307292 (300.0 KiB)
> 
> [root at coke2 ~]# mii-tool bond0
> bond0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
> [root at coke2 ~]# ethtool bond0
> Settings for bond0:
> No data available
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your advice,
> 
> Vu
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