Bonding network adapters (also called teaming) allows a number of physical adapters to act as one, virtual adapter. Bonding network interfaces, from the same adapter or from multiple adapters, creates a single virtual interface with a single MAC address.
The virtual adapter or virtual interface can assist in load balancing and providing failover in the event of physical adapter or port failure.
Bonding configuration support provided by the Linux bonding driver includes:
- 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation.
- Static link aggregation.
- Fault tolerance.
To set up a network bond, consult the following documentation:
- For general information, see:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
- For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, go to https://docs.redhat.com and search for "configuring a network bond".
- For Ubuntu, go to https://help.ubuntu.com/ and search for "configuring a network bond".