Thank you, This was exactly what I was looking for.

Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Oct 11,  9:56pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone give me the skinny on how to team
> > up 2 nics in Linux? 
> 
> >>From Configure.help in 2.4.0-test9:
> 
>     Bonding driver support
>     CONFIG_BONDING
>       Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
>       Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
>       'Trunking' by Sun, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
> 
>       If you have two ethernet connections to some other computer, you can
>       make them behave like one double speed connection using this driver.
>       Naturally, this has to be supported at the other end as well, either
>       with a similar Bonding Linux driver, a Cisco 5500 switch or a
>       SunTrunking SunSoft driver.
> 
>       This is similar to the EQL driver, but it merges Ethernet segments
>       instead of serial lines.
> 
>       If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
>       inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
>       say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be
>       called bonding.o.
> 
> >>From drivers/net/bonding.c in the same sources:
> 
>  * This is useful to talk to a Cisco 5500, running Etherchannel, aka:
>  *	Linux Channel Bonding
>  *	Sun Trunking (Solaris)
>  *
>  * How it works:
>  *    ifconfig bond0 ipaddress netmask up
>  *      will setup a network device, with an ip address.  No mac address 
>  *	will be assigned at this time.  The hw mac address will come from 
>  *	the first slave bonded to the channel.  All slaves will then use 
>  *	this hw mac address.
>  *
>  *    ifconfig bond0 down
>  *         will release all slaves, marking them as down.
>  *
>  *    ifenslave bond0 eth0
>  *	will attache eth0 to bond0 as a slave.  eth0 hw mac address will either
>  *	a: be used as initial mac address
>  *	b: if a hw mac address already is there, eth0's hw mac address 
>  *	   will then  be set from bond0.
> 
> 
> I haven't tried it, but I am running 2.4.0-test9 on one of my machines
> without problems.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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