Ethernet Bonding in LINUX
Ethernet Bonding in LINUX by Johny Darwin Ethernet bonding is also known as port teaming and port trunking. When there is requirement for fault tolerance or load balancing you can consider ethernet bonding as an easy option. Fault tolerance You can have one active and one backup network interfact. In case the active interface goes down the backup interfact takes over and provides fault tolerance. Load balancing There are algorithms in ethernet bonding which can provide load balancing, for example, by sending information sequentially starting with first interface to the last interface. For example, if there are 2 slave interfaces, first frame travel through first interface, and the second frame goes through the second frame, then the third frame goes through the first interface and so on. There are different modes available for load balancing, like the XOR mode. The lab setup For this setup I have setup a virtual machine using kvm virtual-manager running in RHEL 6.5...