Bond Network Cards with Different IPs

[smcc-wks]

Hello Community,

Is it possible to bond 3 network cards, all with different IP addresses as one virtual/bonded NIC? We have 3 VLANs that we would like to combine into one virtual NIC for use with Free Opensource Ghost. Each VLAN has a different IP ranged and they do not talk to each other. I have read into ifenslave but that seems to be for link aggregation/trunking for increased throughput. We just want a Gigabit link to each VLAN.

Thank you in advance,

SMCC

[karlson]

Hello Community,

Is it possible to bond 3 network cards, all with different IP addresses as one virtual/bonded NIC? We have 3 VLANs that we would like to combine into one virtual NIC for use with Free Opensource Ghost. Each VLAN has a different IP ranged and they do not talk to each other. I have read into ifenslave but that seems to be for link aggregation/trunking for increased throughput. We just want a Gigabit link to each VLAN.

Thank you in advance,

SMCC

Why would you want to bond them together?

[smcc-wks]

Because FOG can only use 1 interface which is why we want all 3 NICs to be aliased as one NIC. To FOG it will look like one NIC but traffic will be broadcast from the one bonded NIC to all 3 VLANs.

[drdos2006]

Check these out, did a search on "bridging" and "bonding"

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1842656

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1840543

regards

[bab1]

Because FOG can only use 1 interface which is why we want all 3 NICs to be aliased as one NIC. To FOG it will look like one NIC but traffic will be broadcast from the one bonded NIC to all 3 VLANs.

So why not just use aliases for eth0 or some such like this (from the man page of ifconfig)

 interface
              The name of the interface.  This is usually a driver  name  fol‐
              lowed  by a unit number, for example eth0 for the first Ethernet
              interface. If your kernel supports  alias  interfaces,  you  can
              specify  them  with  eth0:0 for the first alias of eth0. You can
              use them to assign a second address. To delete an  alias  inter‐
              face use ifconfig eth0:0 down.  Note: for every scope (i.e. same
              net with address/netmask combination) all aliases  are  deleted,
              if you delete the first (primary).

See here for practical examples.

Edit: The only gotcha in this is that FOG server must be in a single network with all the VLANS inside. You mention that FOG uses broadcasts, so nothing will cross a router. An example would be a network of 192.168.0.0/16 . All subnets (254 of them) are in the same Network (broadcast range).