Questions tagged [bonding]
"bonding" is the Linux-term for link aggregation.
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Which Network bonding mode gives better performance
I have 2 ethernet interfaces eth0 and eth1. My goal is to use same ip for both interfaces.
I tried
Balance Round Robin- poor bandwidth performance observed
Active backup - Only one interface working
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Switch independent NIC teaming in Linux
Hyper-V virtual switch has switch independent teaming solution using Switch Embedded Teaming (SET).
Is there a match NIC teaming in Linux world?
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How to ping backup interface?
this is my network configuration:
bond interface 192.168.101.50/24 has two salaves: eth1 (192.168.101.1) that is connected to 192.168.101.2 and eth2 (192.168.101.10) that is connected to 192.168.101....
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CARP getting confused with 2 interconnected switches and bonding
I'm having a pretty straight forward 10G switch setup:
+-----+----+ +-----+----+
| |port2 ISL port2| |
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Shared network attached storage - trunked with multiple vlans?
I am introducing an NFS server which I would like to share with KVM guests across different VLANS. I am trying to find a solution which would strike a good balance between function, serviceability, ...
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bridge with bonding interface
I have some scenario like below
[F/W] [F/W]
eth1| |eth3
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[ CentOS7 ]
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eth2| |eth4
[B.B] [B.B]
Line1 = eth1, eth2
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ip link add test_team_slave type team_slave - RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Trying to set up teaming on a Crux Linux with a custom kernel. I have teamd and teamdctl already installed on my system, I managed to find kernel modules for teaming and successfully enabled them. ...
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No TX / RX information on bond interface
I create a bond interface with two members, eth1 and eth2.
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms):...
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Soft-RoCE (RDMA over converged ethernet) over bonded ethernet interfaces?
I am having a hard time finding any information at all about wether it's possible to use the Linux Kernel RXE driver (software RDMA over converged ethernet) with bonded ethernet interfaces (using ...
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Why do I can't see the bond created by systemd service
I have created systemd service to create a bond, and confirmed it's created successfully from the output in the logs, but I can not see the bond in my current shell.
mlx_bonding.service
[Unit]
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Error while creating a bonding interface
I have a problem with creating a bonding interface on Debian 10.11.
What I did was install ifenslave and then stop networking. I edited /etc/network/interfaces as below:
#WiFi Interface
auto mlan0
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Two bonded 10Gb nics on an ESXi guest OS not using full bandwidth
On an ESXi guest machine, with Ubuntu 18.04 operating system, two nics connected from two difference vswitch, each of them has a separate 10Gb uplink.
I made a bonded nic from these two links with ...
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Bonding 802.3ad Ubuntu 20.04 and Aruba 6300M
I have a problem with bonding mode 802.3ad between Ubuntu 20.04.3 and switch aruba 6300m.
Any problems :
The bonding work fine but after a reboot i need to shut / no shut my lag on 6300M switch for &...
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How to improve TCP tolerance to out-of-order delivery in Linux balance-rr bonds and/or FreeBSD roundrobin laggs?
I have 3 servers networ kwise configured as follows
A is a DELL R710 is running Linux 5.13.19-1-pve Proxmox VE 7.1 and has 4 NICs teamed in a balance-rr mode bond.
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Combining Network Connections for Additive Speed
Edit: I've removed the errors I was receiving while starting the bond by using the teamd utility. However, my goal to increase the total speed by combining the networks is still open. Skip down to ...
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Bonding two NICs on ubuntu - each one is connected to different subnet with internet connection
I am struggling with this for over a week. I am new to the networking so I am learning everything from the start past few days.
I am in need to implement seamless switch between two network interfaces....
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Speedify is blocking my external web server and port forwarding
I'm running a server on Ubuntu 21.04 using 4 ethernet ports, I'm working with 2 internet boxes and I'm using Speedify to bond these two connexions (eno1 and eno2) to prevent streaming faults and ...
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NIC ports going offline just by touching the cables slightly
A while ago we discovered an issue with most of our NICs in the data center - touching the cables just leads to the ports of the NICs going offline for a couple of seconds. All the NICs are Broadcom ...
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Can LACP run over Linux tunnel devices?
I'm looking for a way to know if a tunnel device is up or down without needing to use ping myself. Every single tunnel device (gre, ipip, l2tp, geneve, etc) does not have a logical mechanism to decide ...
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Change an active slave of Linux network bonding interface without ifenslave command
Linux supports bonding of multiple Ethernet network interfaces for extra reliability or load balancing.
Bonding driver used to be configured via ifenslave command, which has been deprecated (...
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nic bonding very slow
I have 2 dl380 g9 servers which feature 2 nics with 4 ports each running debian buster.
I have connected 7x 0.50m cat6e patch cables directly server-to-server and set the /etc/network/interfaces on ...
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Why I am Getting Higher than %100 Network Usage From SNMP?
I am using SNMP in Ubuntu 20.04 to get the network usage info and I am using this formula to calculate the network usage:
InOctets : The difference between two poll cycles of collecting the snmp which ...
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Ethernet bond interface fails after NIC replacement
I've replaced a failing 10GbE adapter in a Dell PowerEdge server running a bonded pair of Cat6 cables to an aggregate switch. The old NIC and its replacement are both Intel Ethernet Controllers (10-...
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Packet Loss between server-to-server Oracle Linux 7.9 bond
I have 2 Oracle Linux 7.9 physical servers, each one with a dual nic. I bonded this dual nic end attached server-to-server with 2 cables (not crossover cables). I have packet loss in average 50% ...
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Linux 5.9 VLAN interfaces don't receive traffic unless promiscuous mode is enabled
I've just upgraded a NAS running Debian Buster to Debian Bullseye. This included a kernel upgrade from 4.19.0 to 5.9.0, and a systemd upgrade from 241 to 247.1 (the system is using systemd-networkd ...
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LACP between Netgear ProSafe GSM7248V2 and Linux server
I am trying to connect a Linux server with two 1Gbps NICs with a switch Netgear ProSafe GSM7248V2 using bonding, specifically 802.3ad mode. The results are very confusing, I would be thankful for any ...
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Bonding NIC on VM
I have an ESXi server with a DS switch configured with LACP and lag uplink with 2x10G port on the switch I'm wondering if I give 2 10G interfaces on my VM can I bond them and use that 20G uplink? I ...
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Why does my bond interface with multiq ignore tc's queue selection?
On Debian Buster, Kernel 5.4.51, I have two interfaces tap0 and tap1 joined in a bond interface in mode balance-xor to increase throughput. There is, however, some traffic that must be sent through ...
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Adding a VLAN (over bond/lacp) interface to bridge makes physical interfaces to go down
I have a working configuration of a team interface bonding two physical interfaces, with several VLANs.
ens1f1 ----- |--- team0.1826 (172.18.x.y/28)
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Bonding 2 interfaces inside a linux network namespace
I'd like to be able to bond/aggregate 2 interfaces inside a Linux network namespace.
The configuration I'm working with is the following:
On the root linux net stack I have two physical ethernet ...
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Forwarding bonded connection to local network through stateful firewall - ArchLinux
I'm using Arch Linux to set up a firewall for a school which will stream each classes' video to students at home, so I need a strong and safe connection, that's why I was thinking about bonding ...
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rtk8192ee wifi firmare stops loading after ifenslave setup attempt (Debian 10)
I tried setting up Mode 0 NIC bonding using ifenslave between my Ethernet and WiFi cards on Debian 10.
After numerous ifconfig wls1 up/down, I was able to set up Bond0 until it stopped working. After ...
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I'm trying to Bond Two Internet uplink for Increased VPN Speed, but no luck
I'm trying to Bond Two Internet uplink for Increased VPN Speed under this guide:
How to Bond Two (Multiple) Internet Connections for Increased Speed and Failover
But I have some problems:
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Redundant Mikrotik switch bonding modes
All the posts I can find about redundant switches only address the servers connected to the switches. I need to confirm my configuration on both the servers and the router handling the traffic.
We're ...
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Can NetworkManager deactivate connection when all bond slaves lost carrier?
For Ethernet connection, when carrier is lost then NetworkManager sets connection state to 'unavailable':
[root@host ~]# ip link set down enp2s0f0
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port channel delay coming up <> linux config
after our 5k switch reboots, due to many configured vlans, LACP/port channels take some time to come up. seems to be a serial process, and if vlans are at bottom of this list, it takes some time - ...
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How to setup a bonded ethernet connection directly between macOS and Windows Server 2019?
I've been having trouble connecting a macOS 10.13 High Sierra server to a Windows Server 2019 server with a bonded ethernet connection consisting of 3 directly connected ethernet adapters. Windows ...
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No connection to default gateway
I freshly installed a new ubuntu server and set up netplan for 802.3ad. Now I can reach every device in my network but not the gateway and therefor the internet. The server is directly plugged into ...
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linux router, 2x NIC, HA with interface bonding, two ethernet switches
I have two NIC server (eth0, eth1) that I use as router. I have two switches working in stack.
Is it a good idea / possible to create on them two bond lacp interfaces ( bond0, bond1 ).
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How to bond two interfaces having different speeds in Linux?
I have successfully set up two simultaneous VPN tunnels over different Internet connections to the same server. Then I've bonded them using systemd-networkd and balance-tlb mode.
It works as designed,...
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Interface bonding on GRE tunnel with nmcli
I have two Ubuntu server-based routers and I'd like to bond (in broadcast mode, since I only care about redundancy) a radio link (where the radio equipment is connected to an Ethernet port) and a LTE ...
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What is the Proper Way to Create Port Bonding on RHEL?
I've got for data interfaces on my server: eno5, eno6, ens3f0 and ens3f1. I need to create port bonding with these four interfaces with a VLAN ID 101 and with bond name data0.
More info:
RHEL 7.6
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debian 10 bonding error boot bond0
I try to set up bonding on my debian 10 computer. I have 2 NIC card, I try to use enp1s0fX port. Sample of my interfaces file
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.211.124
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CentOS 7, KVM, bridge, VLAN, bond and no guest traffic
I'm running into an issue where my KVM guests have no network traffic in- or outgoing. After a lot of hours debugging I'm pretty sure I'm missing something essential.
What I have a server with 2 10 ...
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Bridge over VLAN interfaces causes broadcast storm
I am doing experiments on my Proxmox server. The purpose of the expriment is to establish reliable and fault-torrant communications between two PCs that control industrial equipment. but I am puzzled ...
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LCAP and VLan on FreeNAS box
I can not seem to get the FreeNAS GUI to come up when I try to use link aggregation. I have been googling for days and I am totally lost as to where I am going wrong. I will list the equipment I have ...
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Network interface is down then is up with different speed
i have a HP ProLiant server with 4 physical network ports. eth0 and eth1 are bonded together. today we faced a lag in our services, turned out that eth0 was down then up with 1000Mbps speed then went ...
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NIC bonding on Linux in redundant network topology
I want to implement NIC bonding on Linux server in redundant network topology as shown in the network diagram below.
Network topology
Both interfaces of the Linux server fa0 and fa1 would be in one ...
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site to site openVpn link aggregation with linux
I'm trying to improve access over VPN for a site office to the head office.
Will the following increase single file download speed.
Provide 2 WAN (NBN) connection at both sites.
Dedicate each WAN ...
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ubuntu 18 nic bonding not working
I have some issue with my aggregated nics in ubuntu 18. I was not able to make it work. it is not pingable and not able to ping also.
**Netplan config:**
*network:
bonds:
bond0:
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