Édition : Channel Bonding sur Debian

Setup Bonding Ethernet on Debian with a 2.4 kernel

To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian (Woody, Sarge or Sid with a 2.4.x kernel) you need to:

install package ifenslave-2.4.To install this package follow this command

#apt-get install ifenslave-2.4

make sure the real NICs kernel modules are loaded automatically

edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

iface bond0 inet static
address 10.31.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.31.1.0
gateway 10.31.1.254
up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0
up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth1

comment or borrow the lines referring to your real NICs in the same file

add the following lines to your /etc/modutils/arch/i386:

alias bond0 bonding

options bonding mode=1 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200

Now run the following command for update

#update-modules

Setup Bonding Ethernet on Debian with a 2.6 kernel

To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian (Woody, Sarge or Sid with a 2.4.x kernel) you need to:

install package ifenslave-2.6.To install this package follow this command

#apt-get install ifenslave-2.6

make sure the real NICs kernel modules are loaded automatically

edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

iface bond0 inet static
address 10.31.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.31.1.0
gateway 10.31.1.254
up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0
up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth1

comment or borrow the lines referring to your real NICs in the same file

add the following lines to your /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386:

alias bond0 bonding

options bonding mode=1 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200