[ale] Bonding sanity check

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Wed Feb 24 11:09:57 EST 2010


In the interest of self-answer...

I'm seeing in 12.2 of the below-referenced document that establishing a 
bond to separate switches is supported, especially if there is an ISL 
between the switches.

- Jeff

On 2/24/10 10:52 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Are there reasonable uses of Ethernet bonding that incorporate
> connecting slave NICs of a given bond device to completely different
> switches?  I've been looking over
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-driver-howto.php
> for reference.  I have not seen or used bonds that do anything other
> than connect to the same switch.
>
> - Jeff
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