Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Please pardon the off-topic post, but I figure you all might know this as well and I'm already on this list. I've got two nodes, each has a pair of gigE ports, plus a 100M port. The 100M ports are my link to the world, the gigE ports are just hooked up directly to the other node, no switch in the middle. Will bonding mode 5 or 6 work in this situation? I've set it up with both mode=5 and mode=6 and it seems I can't get any traffic unless I kill one of the links. Is there something about bonding that expects all four interfaces to be on the same network? The way I have it wired, I effectively have two private networks: Box1-eth0 <----> Box2-eth0 and Box1-eth1 <----> Box2-eth1 I really don't want to add a switch here, it's just one more thing to take up space and to fail. This will be my drbd sync connection (see, not totally off-topic). The desired bonding behavior is both load balancing and reliability. I understand that I'll have to run two drbd devices to get the full bandwidth.