Chapter 7: Teaming/Bonding; Setting Up Teams - Xilinx Alveo X3522 User Manual

Teaming/Bonding
This chapter describes how to share or combine physical interfaces using teaming. This is also
known as network bonding.

Setting Up Teams

Teaming network adapters (network bonding) allows a number of physical adapters to act as one,
virtual adapter. Teaming network interfaces, from the same adapter or from multiple adapters,
creates a single virtual interface with a single MAC address.
The virtual adapter or virtual interface can assist in load balancing and providing failover in the
event of physical adapter or port failure.
Teaming configuration support provided by the Linux bonding driver includes:
• 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation
• Static link aggregation
• Fault tolerance.
To set up an adapter team, consult the following documentation:
• General:
https:/ /www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
• RHEL 7:
https:/ /access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/
networking_guide/ch-configure_network_teaming
• RHEL 8:
https:/ /access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/
configuring_and_managing_networking/configuring-network-teaming_configuring-and-
managing-networking
• Ubuntu:
https:/ /help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding
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