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Network bonding is a method by which several physical network interfaces (NICs) are bonded or merged together to form a single virtual one which behaves as it were a real one.

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Network Bonding Ethernet and Wifi

I am trying to bond my Ethernet (eth0) and Wifi (wlan0) connection to increase aggregate bandwidth. (They are both on different networks with different bandwidth allocations.) So far I've attempted ...
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link aggregation: how?

Link aggregation is not working for me to a point of the server not being reachable: what could be the problem, and what are the best practices in this type of a (seemingly fairly common) setup? Dell ...
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22.04 Bonding Confusion

I'm struggling with bonding. I have a Cisco C220 and trying to create a bonding of my 2 of 3 ports (2x 10Gb SFP+ ports, and 1GB Ethernet ports). I have devices pointed to each of their IP addresses ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 bonding up and working but no internet access (network/interfaces)

Bonding is working but no internet access. Hope I have given all the necessary details. **kalidoss@kalidoss:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) #auto ...
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NIC Bonding Issue

I'm still new to the Linux world but the reason why I have built my PC is to learn it - so please bear this in mind as I may be doing something obvious wrong. A brief outline of my setup so you can ...
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ubuntu bonding , how to auto switch to primary slave when available

https://www.unixmen.com/linux-basics-create-network-bonding-on-ubuntu-14-10/ I have configured the bonding with mode 1 :bond-mode active-backup. ln@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # ...
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bond two wifi interfaces with dhcp

I want to round-robin (mode 0) two wifi interfaces to increase overall bandwidth. I've tried using the command line or using network manager. With the command line using the following /etc/network/...
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Losing IPv6 route or connectivity on bonded interface 16.04LTS

Good afternoon, all. Running 16.04LTS on a SuperMicro X7DBN motherboard. I have two possibly related problems that I will describe separately. First, I seem to be losing IPv6 connectivity 5-10 ...
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NIC bonding mode 6 (balance-alb) only uses one NIC

OS: Ubuntu 12.04LTS bonding is in /etc/modules for automatic loading at boot The bonding configuration works in bond-mode 0 but not bond-mode 6 -- When the system boots bond0 comes up with only ...
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Bonding / Ubuntu 20.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a VM with 2 ethernet ports. I'm trying to bond those 2 ethernet ports, but I can't find the right way. For example, someone says without netplan, others with ...
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What is the best way to have failover connection for OpenVPN client

I am going to make failover connection for OpenVPN client. What will be the best way to achieve it? I have two ethernet interfaces. I connect eth0 to LAN (with DHCP), and eth1 to GSM router (with ...
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NIC Teaming in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I'm naive to Linux flavours (like Ubuntu, Centos, etc). I've been googling on how to setup NIC teaming in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, reading mostly using /etc/network/interfaces. But, I couldn't find '...
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Active-backup bonding in netplan using cellural modem

I try to set up active-backup bonding in netplan with a modem (ppp0) as a backup. Ppp0 interface works correctly on its own and was created using network manager in line with the guide on official ...
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Unable to ping the gateway in ubuntu 20.04 bond mode

I have ten servers, it has 2 INTEL 10GB network cards (dual port) Under UBUNTU 20.04, use bond6 mode to bond 2 network cards in a group; The server often fails to connect during the test When the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2....Bonded NICs as TRUNK interface...assign IP from a specific VLAN to the bonded NICs?

I am attempting to setup BONDED NICs (2x 10G). We have 6 total NICs, 4x 1G and 2x 10G, do not plan to use the 1G connections at this time. Looks like I have the NICs bonded (no errors in networkctl ...
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ubuntu 18.04 how to install over a bonded interface

Is it possible to install ubuntu server over a bonded interface. Trying to see if i can pass bond information as boot params and configure bonding ? Any example would be greatly appreciated .
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Ubuntu 20.04 KVM, netplan with bonding, vlan and bridges

I am preparing migration of an UBUNTU 16.04.7 server with 5 NIC's to 20.04. My testing server has 4 NIC's: 2 onboard and 2 as Intel Pro NIC. Configured in 00-installer-config.yaml. The first NIC is ...
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Netplan with bonded NICs and VLANS and bridges not working

I have a netplan issue. Config is below. Bond seems to be working but I cannot connect to the network VLAN128 (br128) which is bridged on bond. The hardware and bonds worked before the server upgrade ...
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Bonding / Link aggregation / NIC teaming for faster transfer

I am working on a home server and want to utilize more than one 1Gb connection to my servers, to make for instance 4Gb connection with 4 cables. My question is how to achieve this with Ubuntu server ...
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unregister_netdevice: waiting for bond0.100 to become free. Usage count = -1

I've created a bond-interface with systemd-networkd, with a wildcard for all eth*- and en*-Interfaces. The purpose is to attach and detach USB-network-devices to the bond automatically. On top of the ...
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SRIOV + ubuntu bonding in KVM

I have a KVM with Intel SRIOV card. 5: enp4s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0c:bd:05:d9:82 brd ff:ff:ff:...
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Problems with bonding on 16.04 LTS

The system runs Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with 3 1GBit NICs: one embedded and 2 Intel PCIe NICs. Both Intel NICs are bonded (bond0) with mode 4 (LACP). The switch is confugured to support LACP on these 2 ...
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How to make Network Bonding in 16.04.1?

I want to make Network Bonding in 16.04.1, i know need ifenslave to complete it. The ifenslave base on network manager for this function. But what setting need modify in network manager? How modify ...
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How to turn off Network Discovery and Share between computers on LAN in ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I want to disable my Network Discovery and Share between computers on LAN in ubuntu 16.04 LTS . Please help in terms of terminal coding or may be another way.
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Can bonding two NIC give me double speed on LAN?

I have three PC, named A, B, S. A have one NIC 100 Mb/s, B is like A. S have two NIC, each one is 100 Mb/s. I use a 1 Gbs switch. All NICs of A, B, S are connected to switch. Now a write a tool in ...
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Speed up internet by multiple connections

I had made research about increasing internet speed by connection on multiple source. And i find out that ubuntu support it already. I had connect two phone; iPhone with cable and Samsung with WiFi. ...
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Link aggregation on a LXC bridge

I'm working on a server with a number of various interfaces (eth0-3) and I currently just use one for both host traffic and another for my LXC bridges traffic. Since I have a few spare ports just ...
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Vlans in Ubuntu 12.04.3 bonding are down after boot

My issue is the following: I've got two 10 GIG interfaces that i need to use in bonding - LACP - mode 4. Here is my config: mypc# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto ...
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NIC Bonding Problem

My infrastructure is like below: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server running on VirtualBox 2 NICs, enp0s3 and enp0s8, both attached to Bridged Adapter My netplan file: network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ...
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LACP NIC Bonding always uses only one interface port event at Hash policy layer 2+3

We are facing an issue with UBUNTU 20.04 NIC bonding LACP 802.3ad. Two 100G NIC ports are bonded via netplan and the settings are - MTU 9216, Hash policy 2+3, LACP fast, and the same is configured ...
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bond with different VLAN's, all uses same MAC-Addresses / is it possible to generate the MAC automatically?

the config is done as follows with the configurator in the setup wizard: network: bonds: team0: interfaces: - enp65s0f0np0 - enp65s0f1np1 parameters: lacp-rate: ...
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LACP between 22.04 and Open vSwitch: Ubuntu neither responding nor sending LACP PDU

I have a a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 running in KVM with 6 virtio interface emulating e1000. This is connected to an Open vSwitch and LACP is configured on both switch and Ubuntu. Summery of my problem is ...
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network manager not show bond0 lacp connection

System is running Ubuntu desktop 23.04 I am unable to update Application Software because the application does not see a network connection. I have created a LACP 802.3ad dual nic connection using the ...
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Can't find the network during installation

I'm trying to finish setting up Ubuntu 20.04 server on my HP ZBook laptop, but I can't set up the network correctly. I can't find my wired LAN. I read the Ubuntu official guide and it says that ...
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How to setup NIC bonding in Ubuntu 20.04 docker image

I want to sent ip NIC bonding (teaming) in Ubuntu 20.04 eve-ng docker image. when i enter command "sudo mobprobe bonding" I receive the following error; modprobe: FATAL: Module bonding not ...
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Nic bond issues

Encountering an issue when trying to bond two nics in a HP server running 22.04. I'm using the following netplan config file and two ports on the cisco switch bonded with LACP, the ports on the cisco ...
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Ubuntu Bonding doesn't work on Dell R730

I am unable to make a bond work on an R730 DELL server whereas r630 servers (we have 3) are connected to the same switch and have the same VLAN's allowed are working without any issues.I have cross ...
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Network Bonding - ubuntu 20.04 Can't reach the outside world

I am at wits end. I am trying to get network bonding to work. I have tried both using netplan config file and doing it manually with ip commands. Ether way looks like everything is up and working ...
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issues with bonding

I have enabled nic bonding with vlans on my ubuntu 22.04 machine with 2 interfaces. One of the interfaces is connected to Switch 1 and the other one goes to Switch2. Here is what happening, when i ...
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bonded nics with netplan on Ubuntu 20.04 does not pass traffic

I've spent all afternoon trying to get some nics bonded on a Ubuntu 20.04 server. The bond seems to come up OK based on ip a and /proc/net/bonding but I can only ping the ip of the bond itself, ...
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Creating bonded interface with new Ubuntu Server 18.04 install does not work

Final Update I started fresh again with DHCP on the client LAN. It successfully installed and was able to resolve the address to grab updates. Since a bond was not created initially, I installed ...
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Network bonding: slave NICs still get DHCP

I'm setting up bonding of two 1 GB Ethernet NICs on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS in mode 0 (balanced-rr). The bond is working in that it comes up at the assigned IP address and I can SSH into it at this ...
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VLANS on Netplan break ping/ssh

Took me a while to figure out correct format for Netplan to work properly with vlans. Anyway, this applies properly but breaks ping and ssh on both vlans. I would also rather only have the ip ...
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Docker Ubuntu: NIC Bonding

I´m in the process of creating a docker image that supports nic bonding but the ubuntu 20.04 docker container throws the following error when I execute the command modprobe bonding modprobe: FATAL : ...
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No connection to default gateway

I freshly installed a new ubuntu server and set up netplan for 802.3ad. Now I can reach every device in my network (and vice versa) but not the gateway and therefor the internet (also the router ...
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Netplan bonding 2 gateways (2 ISP)

My office is in an area where wired internet connection is poor and unstable so I'm trying to bonding 2 ISP. I have 2 modems connected to two different phisical interfaces on my Ubuntu 18 server: ...
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Shifting MAC in bond

I have a system running 18.04 which requires a bond due to bandwidth. However what i have found is that the MAC address may change upon boot up. The software i am using requires a MAC which is fixed ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 bond with netplan duplicate MAC address after cloning

I have a situation in which I have many identical servers to setup Ubuntu 18.04 on. I set one server up, took an image with Clonezilla and then restored on all others. Normally, I go to each of these ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 Ethernet Bonding

This question is quite unique and different from other guides and documentations out there. I don't see any point in bonding two NICs that are connected to the same source because if the source goes ...
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Bonding different ISPs in a gateway in ubuntu 18.04

I am using four ISPs connections in a gateway and would like to use them in mode 0 (round robin). All of ISPs are having static IPs. I have been trying to bond ISPs, but unable to suceed. I have ...
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