Chapter XII. Offload Bonding driver
1. Introduction
The Chelsio Offload bonding driver provides a method to aggregate multiple network interfaces
into a single logical bonded interface effectively combining the bandwidth into a single
connection. It also provides redundancy in case one of link fails.
The traffic running over the bonded interface can be fully offloaded to the T5/T4 Adapter, thus
freeing the CPU from TCP/IP overhead.
1.1.
Hardware Requirements
1.1.1. Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio Adapters that are compatible with the Chelsio
Offload Bonding driver:
T520-BT
T580-CR
T520-LL-CR
T520-CR
T580-LP-CR
T540-CR
T420-CR
T440-CR
T422-CR
T420-SO-CR
T404-BT
T420-BCH
T440-LP-CR
T420-BT
T420-LL-CR
T420-CX
1.2.
Software Requirements
1.2.1. Linux Requirements
Currently the Offload Bonding driver is available for the following versions:
RHEL 7.2, 3.10.0-327.el7 *
RHEL 7.1, 3.10.0-229.el7
RHEL 6.7, 2.6.32-573.el6*
RHEL 6.6, 2.6.32-504.el6*
RHEL 6.5, 2.6.32-431.el6*
Chelsio T5/T4 Unified Wire for Linux
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