Bonding

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This article shows how to bond (or aggregate) multiple ethernet interfaces into a bond0 interface.

Installation

First, install the bonding package. This will give you support for bonding in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

apk add bonding

Configuration

Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file:

Contents of

auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 # specify the ethernet interfaces that should be bonded bond-slaves eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3

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References: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt