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NIC `bonding` in active backup mode is not working as expected with `systemd-netoworkd`

I can connect to internet using both the Ethernet connection and the WiFi connection. ❯ ip link 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default ...
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Why did the mac address of bond changed on CentOS7 after reboot

I have two interfaces bonded together in LACP mode (mode=4 <=> 802.3ad) in bond0 : The mac address of bond0before reboot : $ cat /sys/class/net/bond0/address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:bf The mac address ...
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How to ping over a bond interface?

I've an issue: I created a bond interface (192.168.101.50/24) in active-backup mode with two interfaces (eth1 and eth2) connected to two devices (192.168.101.2/24 for eth1 and 192.168.101.11/24 for ...
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LACP bond seems to be favouring one interface when multiple concurrent processes are transferring data

This is likely a really easy one (ie I've fundamentally missed something and its just my fault / lack of knowledge / assumptions). So I have a machine with 2x 25GbE fibres bonded into bond0 via LACP (...
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incorrect/recurring link status definitely up

I am running some tests on a HA setup where a device A can only reach a device B through one of the switches. In reality there will be a link for device b to both switches, but I am just testing the ...
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Bondig two NIC slow upload

I have two NIC in pc/nas: eth0 (integrated motherboard): Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/...
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No TX / RX information on bond interface

I create a bond interface with two members, eth1 and eth2. Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin) MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms):...
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Bonding with VLAN and bridge on Debian 11

I'm trying to configure on Linux bonding active-backup (2 physical interfaces eth2 and eth3, one is used) but also with two VLANs, and later connect it to internal bridges. I see two options for ...
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How may i make the best of 3 flaky connections?

i have 2 access providers. Neither is stable. Either connection may go dead for seconds or hours at a time. When "working", both connections are likely to drop anywhere from 0-100% of ...
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Ubuntu netplan arp-ip-target issue

I have ubuntu 20.04 running netplan version 0.102-0ubuntu1~20.04.2 and i am trying to configure active-backup bond with using option arp-ip-target bonds: bond0: dhcp4: no ...
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Autostarting bond with DHCP and eth in /etc/network/interfaces

As the title says, I'm getting conflicts when autostarting both a bond and a regular connection when using DHCP. I started a Question at ServerFault (link below), and they pointed out some conflicts, ...
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Virtualbox and Bonding

I'm using Virtualbox on a Lubuntu Host machine. The host machine now has two NICs called enp0s31f6 and enp4s0 that are joined in a bond interface called bond0. The bond uses bond mode 802.3ad, network ...
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Network fails with 802.3ad after connecting second cable

I'm trying to setup Bonding in Lubuntu 20.04 LTS. I've got the onboard NIC plus a PCI card with two more NICs. All three ports should get connected to a Ubiquiti Switch US-8-60W, the three ports are ...
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Why does my bond have two ipv6 addresses?

You can see below, the bond has two ipv6 addresses, 2603:8080:4540:7cfb::13fc and 2603:8080:4540:7cfb:4866:4bff:fe44:a988. Which makes me think systemd-networkd is somehow failing to treat the bond as ...
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linux bonding - changing params if statically linked

I want to run some tests using linux network bonding. I am using qemu VMs and I am using a custom-built kernel to run them where I set it up to have bonding statically linked. I see in the ...
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Can't get NIC bonding to work in Debian 10

I have a Dell PowerEdge T410 server with a Broadcom Limited NetExtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit Ethernet NIC and Debian 10 which I'm hoping to install Proxmox on top of. My home network is configured with ...
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How to change teamd mac address?

I need to change mac address to two Ethernet cards which are teamed.Problem is that after changing the mac to my teammed interface or any of the two physical cards my ip connection get lost and i am ...
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Remove bond interface from centos permanently

I have a Centos server having a bond interface containing two interfaces, I am trying to remove one of them from the bond. Using ifenslave -d bond0 eno1 it is removed however, after restart the ...
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Change systemd bond0 default bonding

Using systemd, I can easily create a bond interface i.e. "mybond". systemd by default creates a bond0 interface, would it be possible to change its parameters? No matter the .netdev and ....
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Options for high-availablility, high-throughput bonding in Linux

When trying to configure high-availablity (HA) bonding in Linux that should also use the bandwidth available, I wonder what the options are: The solution should ensure HA and optimal throughput (when ...
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After creating a team connection with NetworkManager, on reboot disappear with strange results

I have created, on Fedora server a team connection using networkManager nmcli con add type team con-name team0 ifname team0 config /usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/random.conf nmcli con add type ...
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Failed to start raised network interfaces but restarting after login works

I was trying to create a bridge connection in order to set up a VM. Before making the bridge connection I made a copy of my /etc/network. I notice that something was not working so I restored my ...
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Delete a bond interface created from /etc/network/interfaces (ifupdown)?

I made an attempt bonding two interfaces into one, created bond0, and found it unsatisfactory. I then reverted all changes made to /etc/network/interfaces and ran systemctl restart networking.service, ...
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Configuring a bridge leads to losing connection

I have a Linux server with three NIC that are connected to a switch (one NIC is the management, two NIC form a LACP bonding). In addition I need to use a VLAN (167), because the switch is configured ...
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How to Combine a Bridge with VLAN over a Bonding and Two Default Gateways

I have a Linux server with three NIC that are connected to a switch (one NIC is the management, two NIC form a LACP bonding). In addition I need to use a VLAN (167), because the switch is configured ...
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Bonding of two NIC does not work/go up

I have a Linux server with two NIC that are connected to a switch (and one NIC for management) and I want to use combine them and use LACP there, but for some unknown reason to me the bonding will ...
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FreeBSD rc.conf not adding lagg group to bridge on system start up or service restart

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have the following configuration in my /etc/rc.conf on my (personal) server. cloned_interfaces="bridge0 lagg0" ifconfig_igb0="up" ifconfig_igb1="up" ...
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Currently I have two node cluster (SLES as HANA DB). I would like to check in which condition a failover will be triggered?

Below are the conditions. We could not test these because these nodes are already in production. Replication between the nodes fail. Replication is working but network link is down with no bonding. ...
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How to make bonding using mobile broadband 4g dongles

Actually I did connect both ppp0 and ppp1 using nm-connection-editor(network connection setting). But now I wish to make a balance-rr(mode 0), and thought that bonding would do that for me. I need ...
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Bonding onboard ethernet with USB modem dongle

I have a RaspberryPi 3b+ with a raspbian OS on it. I'm trying to bond the onboard ethernet with a USB modem dongle (Huawei E3372, HiLink fw). The problem is that when ethernet cable is switched of, ...
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Networkmanager: apply property to ALL wireless connections for a particular interface

I'm trying to bond the ethernet and wifi on my laptop. A bond can be setup with nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlps3s0 master bond0 ssid $YOURSSID (see Bonding wired and wireless while using ...
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No IP4 connectivity over bond; slaves listed as "routable" instead of "enslaved"

Bond settings: root@gentooserver /etc/systemd/network # tail -n +1 * ==> bond1.netdev <== [NetDev] Name=bond1 Kind=bond [Bond] Mode=802.3ad MIIMonitorSec=1s LACPTransmitRate=fast ...
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What can I do to enable automatic switching to a backup network when there is packet loss?

If I create a connection using network bonding (using the mode active-backup), then although automatic switching to the backup network occurs if I pull out the network cable, it does not occur when ...
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In Mint 19.1, how do I bond an ethernet and a wifi adapter?

In Mint 19.1, I can see in "Network Connections" that I can bond 2 ethernet adapters. How do I bond an ethernet adapter and a wifi one without completely disabling the GUI configuration of networks? ...
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Removing eth0 from bond0 fixes Link detected no/yes issue, but why?

On a SLES12 with 4 physical NIC, having them in a bond0. eth0 shows "Link detected: no". But if I remove eth0 from the bond0 and do an "ifup eth0", it will show "Link detected: yes" and everything ...
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systemd LACP bond mess up aggregation ID for NICs

arch linux with lts kernel systemd networkd is configured to bond two NICs into LACP trunk with smart switch (DGS-1210-28). But it fails after OS startup - only one NIC is used for bond connection. ...
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Network teaming configuration

How to configure the teaming network? On our redhat machines we configured as the following the teaming network On each machine we have two links - ens1f5 and ens1f6 And we add the team0 file to ...
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Network teaming VS bonding configuration

as I am understanding we can set on Linux configuration BONDING or network teaming both approach support LAN fail over for example if on the server we have the following up link eth1 eth2 in ...
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bonding configuration when SLAVE=yes

In my network configuration I see the settings of SLAVE=yes what is mean that - SLAVE=yes # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes # Settings for ...
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Linux Bonding Driver Mode 0 And Fault Tolerance

I've been testing a bonded network based on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. The far end of the bond is a VM also running Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. The two servers are tied together by two OpenVPN tunnels in ...
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ethtool config precedence on physical interface or bond?

If I have a physical interface that (for example) has large-receive-offload configured to 'off' and that interface is part of a mode4 bond group that has large-receive-offload set to 'on' which will ...
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system get wrong gateway when bonding

I have a physical system with Centos 6 as OS. In eth0 I set IP, gateway and netmask as below and the physical port is attached to a switch port that its VLAN is 12. DEVICE=eth0 TYPE=Ethernet ...
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I'd like to setup a bond0 interface using 2 eth devices in CentOS 7 in VirtualBox?

I would like to set up a CentOS 7.x VM inside of VirtualBox so I can experiment with bonding interfaces. How can I set up this VM so that it has the following interfaces: eth1 (private network - 192....
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How set up link aggregation (bonding) in linux mint 19

I am using network-manager. I tried bonding my two wired connections eth0 and usb0, using GUI similar to nm-connection-editor (eth0 is connected to my router and usb0 is connected to cellphone). I can ...
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Is it possible to increase Ceph throughput with multi-port NICs without LACP?

My Ceph cluster consists of 3 rather old servers storage servers, and a Netgear GS724Tv1, which does not appear to support LACP. I have already set up a separate cluster network and public network, ...
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Link Aggregation (Bonding) for bandwidth does not work when Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) set on smart switch

My question is: why does setting Link Aggregation Groups on the smart switch lower the bandwidth between two machines? I have finally achieved higher throughput (bandwidth) between two machines (...
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Linux bond with VLAN question

Do you think following configuration make sense? Does BONDTING_OPT supported in VLAN interface? I want to make sure my interface fails over when the upstream device down. ifcfg-bond0 $ cat /etc/...
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what is the advantage to configure the network ETH with UUID?

what is the advantage to configure the network with UUID? uuidgen eno093736 1b64d026-c6a6-447c-85aa-40c5d2db2c4e for example we want to configure BOND under /etc/sysconfig/network-script what is ...
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MTU setting on VLAN on bonded interface

Current set up is: em2 ---\ / --- bond0.12 \ / \ / -bond0- --- bond0.13 / \ / \ em2 ---/ \ --- bond0.14 ...
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Bonding of virtual network interfaces

Is it possible to bond virtual network interfaces? If yes, how? Bonding of physical interfaces is explained here for example: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/bonding My situation is this:...
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