Users Guide

TeamingNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
September 4, 2019 • NetXtreme-E-UG103 Page 42
Teaming
Windows
The Broadcom NetXtreme-E devices installed on Dell platforms can participate in NIC teaming functionality
using the Microsoft teaming solution.
Microsoft LBFO is a native teaming driver that can be used in the Windows OS. The teaming driver also provides
VLAN tagging capabilities.
Linux
Linux bonding is used for teaming under Linux. The concept is loading the bonding driver and adding team
members to the bond which would load-balance the traffic.
Use the following steps to setup Linux bonding:
1. Execute the following command:
modprobe bonding mode=”balance-alb”. This will create a bond interface.
2. Add bond clients to the bond interface. An example is shown below:
ifenslave bond0 ethX; ifenslave bond0 ethY
3. Assign an IPV4 address to bond the interface using ifconfig bond0 IPV4Address netmask NetMask up. The
IPV4Address and NetMask are an IPV4 address and the associated network mask.
4. Assign an IPV6 address to bond the interface using
ifconfig bond0 IPV6Address netmask NetMask up. The
IPV6Address and NetMask are an IPV6 address and the associated network mask.
Refer to the Linux Bonding documentation for advanced configurations.
Note: IPV4 address should be replaced with the actual network IPV4 address. NetMask should be
replaced by the actual IPV4 network mask.
Note: IPV6 address should be replaced with the actual network IPV6 address. NetMask should be
replaced by the actual IPV6 network mask.