Bonding / Port truncing How To

Hi,
I have here a PC with Intel SE7230NH1-E board inside. This board has two 1GB
NIC built in. After Installation of Suse 10.2 they two are configured as
eth0 and eth1. The PC (acting as file server) will be connected to a 3Com
3CR17491-91 SS3 Switch 3870. My question now: I want to combine the eth0 and
eth1 so that both interfaces bundle the traffic. Some google search and
newsgroup searches I found this called as port truncing or bondling etc. But
I never found a complete "roadmap" how to do this within Suse 10.2. Can
anyone please either tell me a link to a HowTo or just write me a
description, what I have to do to get this? Do I need a special driver for
this?
The NICs are described as:
Intel 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper), Unique= rBUF.ZhPWCzcIReF,
_nm_name= bus-pci-0000:03:00.0 (eth0)
Intel 8254 1GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Unique= JNKJ.k0950Eitqu9,
_nm_name= bus-pci-0000:04:05.0 (eth1)

Thank you.

Klemens

Try this:
http://support.novell.com/techcenter...ing_setup.html

and read the kernel documentation:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

Klemens Lichter wrote:
> Hi,
> I have here a PC with Intel SE7230NH1-E board inside. This board has two 1GB
> NIC built in. After Installation of Suse 10.2 they two are configured as
> eth0 and eth1. The PC (acting as file server) will be connected to a 3Com
> 3CR17491-91 SS3 Switch 3870. My question now: I want to combine the eth0 and
> eth1 so that both interfaces bundle the traffic. Some google search and
> newsgroup searches I found this called as port truncing or bondling etc. But
> I never found a complete "roadmap" how to do this within Suse 10.2. Can
> anyone please either tell me a link to a HowTo or just write me a
> description, what I have to do to get this? Do I need a special driver for
> this?
> The NICs are described as:
> Intel 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper), Unique= rBUF.ZhPWCzcIReF,
> _nm_name= bus-pci-0000:03:00.0 (eth0)
> Intel 8254 1GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Unique= JNKJ.k0950Eitqu9,
> _nm_name= bus-pci-0000:04:05.0 (eth1)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Klemens
>
>

Hi Klemens,

What you need is the "Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver" (it's included in
the kernel) and follow documentation you can find in
/usr/src/kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt or obviously on the
web.

You can also follow the handy article on
http://support.novell.com/techcenter...ing_setup.html

Regards,
Jan

Jan Kalcic wrote:
> Klemens Lichter wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have here a PC with Intel SE7230NH1-E board inside. This board has two 1GB
>> NIC built in. After Installation of Suse 10.2 they two are configured as
>> eth0 and eth1. The PC (acting as file server) will be connected to a 3Com
>> 3CR17491-91 SS3 Switch 3870. My question now: I want to combine the eth0 and
>> eth1 so that both interfaces bundle the traffic. Some google search and
>> newsgroup searches I found this called as port truncing or bondling etc. But
>> I never found a complete "roadmap" how to do this within Suse 10.2. Can
>> anyone please either tell me a link to a HowTo or just write me a
>> description, what I have to do to get this? Do I need a special driver for
>> this?
>> The NICs are described as:
>> Intel 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper), Unique= rBUF.ZhPWCzcIReF,
>> _nm_name= bus-pci-0000:03:00.0 (eth0)
>> Intel 8254 1GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Unique= JNKJ.k0950Eitqu9,
>> _nm_name= bus-pci-0000:04:05.0 (eth1)
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Klemens
>>
>>
>
> Hi Klemens,
>
> What you need is the "Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver" (it's included in
> the kernel) and follow documentation you can find in
> /usr/src/kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt or obviously on the
> web.
>
> You can also follow the handy article on
> http://support.novell.com/techcenter...ing_setup.html
>
> Regards,
> Jan

Sorry, haven't notice the previous reply.

Jan