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CarlosinFL
August 13th, 2009, 07:19 PM
I have a machine with two identical 10/1000 NIC's attached. I was wondering if I could some how bind them two together to act as one and if one NIC fails, the 2nd one is fail over. Is this possible on 9.04?
Iowan
August 13th, 2009, 10:37 PM
Here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Trunking) is a help page on bonding.
CarlosinFL
August 14th, 2009, 03:04 PM
Here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Trunking) is a help page on bonding.

Thanks for that link. I am confused however as the link seems fairly straight forward however it discussing the performance increase from bonding two NIC's however I did not see any mention of NIC redundancy or fail over. Is this not a feature or benefit of this specific type of bonding?