Take a look at the contents of /proc/net/bonding/bond0 to see how your new interface is faring:

$ /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.1.1 (September 26, 2006)

Bonding Mode: adaptive load balancing
Primary Slave: eth0
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
[...]

Now what? Come back next week to learn some additional configuration options for different roles such as round-robin or failure-only, how to configure bonding on Fedora, some tips on network topology, and how to troubleshoot problems.

Resources

• www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

This article originally appeared on Enterprise Networking Planet, a JupiterWeb site.

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