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I have a server with 4 ethernet ports. I want to use two ports for link aggregation to be used for KVM (virtual guests). How can I go about setting this up properly?

Create the link agg first then the bridge?

/etc/network/interfaces

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet dhcp

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp

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yes this is the right way of doing it, don't forget to define which nics are slaves of the bond using bond-slaves option

as an example this is the configuration I use on a few kvm servers: auto bond0 iface bond0 inet manual bond-miimon 100 bond-mode 802.3ad bond-lacp-rate 4 bond-slaves eth0 eth2

auto bond0.32 iface bond0.32 inet manual vlan-raw-device bond0

auto vmbr32 iface vmbr32 inet static bridge_ports bond0.32 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 60 bridge_waitport 30 address configuration...

This is for a static ip configuration with vlan support but it's very close to what you want to do

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bond two NICs together, and build a bridge on top of the bond. Then connect your VMs to the bridge, simple enough.

NIC+NIC > BOND > BRIDGE <-- VM

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