OpenBSD Interface Bonding
OpenBSD November 29th, 2007
While browsing i’m found the nice article about OpenBSD Interface Bonding. I’ll test for stability of this configuration before applying into my server. This is the first link:
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The following is used on OpenBSD since version 3.9 to combine two physical interfaces (fxp1, fxp2) into a single virtual interface (trunk0). This method allows one to take the feeds from a traditional two-output tap and present a single virtual interface to NSM applications.
# ifconfig fxp1 up
# ifconfig fxp2 up
# ifconfig trunk0 trunkport fxp1 up
# ifconfig trunk0 trunkport fxp2 up
# ifconfig trunk0 trunkproto roundrobin up
To make this configuration permanent between reboots:
echo “up” > /etc/hostname.fxp1
echo “up” > /etc/hostname.fxp2
echo “trunkproto roundrobin trunkport fxp1 trunkport fxp2″ > /etc/hostname.trunk0
Remember to replace fxp1 and fxp2 with the network interfaces on your OpenBSD system (e.g., em0, xl0, rl0, etc.).
OpenBSD 3.8 only supported the round robin trunk protocol.
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