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broadcast
Provides fault tolerance
802.3ad
Provides dynamic link aggregation if supported by the connected switch.
balance-tlb
Provides load balancing for outgoing traffic.
balance-alb
Provides load balancing for incoming and outgoing traffic, if the network
devices used allow the modifying of the network device's hardware address
while in use.
6
Make sure that the parameter
miimon=100
is added to Bond Driver Options.
Without this parameter, the data integrity is not checked regularly.
7 Click on Next and leave YaST with Ok to create the device.
All modes, as well as many other options, are explained in detail in the Linux Ethernet
Bonding Driver HOWTO, which can be found at
/usr/src/linux/
Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
once you have installed the
package
kernel-source
.
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