4.3.5. Creating Multiple Bonds

⁠4.3.5. Creating Multiple Bonds

In Fedora 20, for each bond a channel bonding interface is created including the BONDING_OPTS directive. This configuration method is used so that multiple bonding devices can have different configurations. To create multiple channel bonding interfaces, proceed as follows:

Create multiple ifcfg-bondN files with the BONDING_OPTS directive; this directive will cause the network scripts to create the bond interfaces as required.
Create, or edit existing, interface configuration files to be bonded and include the SLAVE directive.
Assign the interfaces to be bonded, the slave interfaces, to the channel bonding interfaces by means of the MASTER directive.

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Example 4.3. Example multiple ifcfg-bondN interface configuration files

The following is an example of a channel bonding interface configuration file:

DEVICE=bondN
NAME=bondN
TYPE=Bond
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BONDING_OPTS="bonding parameters separated by spaces"

In this example, replace N with the number for the bond interface. For example, to create two bonds create two configuration files, ifcfg-bond0 and ifcfg-bond1, with appropriate IP addresses.

Create the interfaces to be bonded as per Example 4.2, “Example Slave Interface Configuration File” and assign them to the bond interfaces as required using the MASTER=bondN directive. For example, continuing on from the example above, if two interfaces per bond are required, then for two bonds create four interface configuration files and assign the first two using MASTER=bond0 and the next two using MASTER=bond1.