[ Thanks to Frederik Konietzny for this
link. ]
“In this article I will describe the setup of bonding
on a debian linux system for a high availability setup. The host is
connected with two network cards to two different switches. If a
switch or a network card fails the host will be still available in
the network.“Purpose
“This document describes how to setup and configure bonding on
debian linux.“General
“Linux bonding is an arrangement of two or more network
interfaces on the same host for redundancy or performance benefit.
The new logical network interface is called bonding interface
(devices are bond0, bond1, bond2,..) The network interfaces ethX
becoming the slave interfaces. On other platforms bonding its known
under different names, like port trunking on cisco IOS.”