60 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • May 2010
Configuring Link Aggregation in aLinux Environment
This section explains how to configure link aggregation in a Linux environment.

To Configure Bonding for Multiple nxge

Interfaces

1. Modify the /etc/modprobe.conf file for 2.6 kernels file by adding these
lines:
where:
bond0 is the bonding device.
max_bonds is the number of bond interfaces to be created.
mode specifies the bonding policies.
miimon is the frequency in milliseconds that MII link monitoring will occur.
Refer to Linux documentation for more information.
2. Load the bonding driver:
3. Configure bond0 interface.
In this example, bond0 is the master of the two interfaces eth4 and eth5.
alias bond0 bonding
options bonding max_bonds=2 mode=4 miimon=1000
#modprobe bonding
#ip addr add 192.12.38.64/24 brd + dev bond0
#ip link set dev bond0 up
#ifenslave bond0 eth4 eth5