[ale] NIC Bonding with multiple IP addresses (is it possible?)

[jlightner at water.com (Jeff Lightner)]

You may be right.  As noted I don't know because I haven't tried it.
Since I currently only have bonding in my Production environment I'm not
willing to try it there.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:32 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] NIC Bonding with multiple IP addresses (is it
possible?)

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I think his question was - is it possible to do aliasing on bonded
NICs.
> 
> e.g. you have eth0 and eth1 as physical NICS slaved to bond0 (a
virtual
> NIC).  Can you then have a bond0 and a bond0:1?
> 
> I don't know the answer.  I've used aliasing and I've used bonding but
> never both at once.  Just figured I'd try to clarify the question as
it
> seems an interesting one.  I'd guess the answer was no since bond0
isn't
> a real NIC.  (similarly ethtool and mii-tool don't really deal with
> bond0 though they may give you an answer [bogus answer of course])

Whereas I'd guess the answer is "yes", since aliasing is
a kernel operation on a logical network interface, not a
hardware device. (In contrast to ethtool etc., which attempt
to directly interrogate the hardware.)

-- JK
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