NIC Bonding in centos 6.x /rhel 6.x

This post is useful in case you have more then 1 NIC card but with poor speed e.g. 10 MBPS  and you require higher bandwidth transmission.

we can bind two or more NIC ( eth0,eth1,eth2........)   in one bonding interface to achieve a good bandwidth.

here is the steps to perform.

  1. Create bond0 config file:
  2. vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
  3. Add the following lines:
  4. DEVICE=bond0
    
    IPADDR=192.168.1.20
    
    NETWORK=192.168.1.0
    
    NETMASK=255.255.255.0
    
    USERCTL=no
    
    BOOTPROTO=none
    
    ONBOOT=yes
    
    (Replace above IP address with your actual IP address. Save file and exit to shell, esc :wq)
  5. Edit eth0 config file:
  6. vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
  7. Add the following lines:
  8. DEVICE=eth0
    
    USERCTL=no
    
    ONBOOT=yes
    
    MASTER=bond0
    
    SLAVE=yes
    
    BOOTPROTO=none
  9. Edit eth1 config file:
  10. vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
  11. Add the following lines:
  12. DEVICE=eth1
    
    USERCTL=no
    
    ONBOOT=yes
    
    MASTER=bond0
    
    SLAVE=yes
    
    BOOTPROTO=none
  13. Load the modules on boot:
  14. vi /etc/modprobe.conf
  15. Add the following lines:
  16. alias bond0 bonding
    options bond0 mode=balance-alb miimon=100
     
     
    If you want to troubleshoot ( if having problem with bonding ) follow bellow steps-
    1. Load the modules, restart the network show the satus of the interface:
    2. modprobe bonding && service network restart && less /proc/net/bonding/bond0
    3. Output:
    4. Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
      MII Status: up
      MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
      Up Delay (ms): 0
      Down Delay (ms): 0
      
      Slave Interface: eth0
      MII Status: up
      Link Failure Count: 0
      Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:c6:be:59
      
      Slave Interface: eth1
      MII Status: up
      Link Failure Count: 0
      Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:c6:be:63
    5. list the interfaces seen by the system:
    6. ifconfig
    7. Output:
    8. bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:C6:BE:59
       inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
       inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
       UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
       RX packets:2804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:1879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
       RX bytes:250825 (244.9 KiB)  TX bytes:244683 (238.9 KiB)
      
      eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:C6:BE:59
       inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
       inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec6:be59/64 Scope:Link
       UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
       RX packets:2809 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:1390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
       RX bytes:251161 (245.2 KiB)  TX bytes:180289 (176.0 KiB)
       Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400
      
      eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:C6:BE:59
       inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
       inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fec6:be59/64 Scope:Link
       UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
       RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
       RX bytes:258 (258.0 b)  TX bytes:66516 (64.9 KiB)
       Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1480
     
 

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