Boost Reliability with Ethernet Bonding and Linux
Starting Everything At Boot

Carla Schroder
Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:19:15 AM
To load the module with the options you want at boot, edit /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 and add these lines. Ignore any documentation that tells you to use a different file because that is wrong:
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=balance-alb miimon=100
Then enshrine your settings in /etc/network/interfaces, using your own addresses of course:
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.50
up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
down ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1
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