Bonding

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In SUSE Linux >= 10, bonding can be set up by way of creating a /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-bondN file (where N is an arbitrary integer) containing the usual definitions of a network interface. BONDING_MASTER is needed to identify the interface as a bonding one.

BONDING_MASTER=yes
BONDING_SLAVE_1='eth0'
BONDING_SLAVE_2='eth1'

IPADDR=192.168.44.1/24
STARTMODE=onboot
BOOTPROTO=static

The interface is then controllable via ifup/ifdown/rcnetwork. Be sure that there are no interface addresses on the slave interfaces, that is, /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 should not have an IPADDR line.

Further information is available in the ifcfg-bonding(5) manpage.