Network Card Bonding in Red Hat Enterprise 6

Good Morning all most of you guys are probably asleep which is cool. Im currently on a mission right now to obtain my RHCSA Certification by the end of my so this is one of may posts that i will be posting as i go through each module. First post of this mission i will be doing Network Card Bonding in RedHat Linux 6 these are the following steps that i took to get this to work.

Step 1. change into the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and create the following file: ifcfg-bond0

Step 2. open the ifcfg-bond0 with you favorite edit (mine being vi) and add the following content:

DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.6.70
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.6.3
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no

Step 3. open the ifcfg-eth(N) note:N -> the interface number example eth0 eth1 etc etc... ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 and add the following content

####################
#eth0 file content #
####################

ifcfg-eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
ONBOOT=yes

#####################
#eth1 file content #
#####################

ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none


Step 4. change into the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory and create the bonding.conf file

Step 5. open the bonding.conf and add the following content

alias bond0 bonding

Step 6. run the following command: service network restart

Step 7. Enjoy your bonded network interfaces :)

well im off to bed have to be at work in a few hours night night all :)

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