Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux, Seventh Edition, July 2007

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Implementing Channel Bonding (SUSE)
Chapter 5160
Implementing Channel Bonding (SUSE)
If you are using a Red Hat distribution, use the procedures described in
the previous section. The following applies only to the SUSE
distributions.
First run yast/yast2 and configure ethernet devices as DHCP so they
create the ifcfg-eth-id-<mac> files.
Next modify each of ifcfg-eth-id-<mac> files that you want to bond,
they are located in /etc/sysconfig/network, and change them from:
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='gZD2.ZqnB7JKTdX0'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:0b.0'
To:
BOOTPROTO='none'
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='gZD2.ZqnB7JKTdX0'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:0b.0'
NOTE Be sure to leave the UNIQUE and the _nm_name alone. You can also leave
in the MTU and REMOTE_IPADDR as long as they are not set.
Next in /etc/sysconfig/network edit your ifcfg-bond0 file so it looks
like the following:
BROADCAST='172.16.0.255'
BOOTPROTO='static'
IPADDR='172.16.0.1'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='172.16.0.0'