[ale] NIC Bonding with multiple IP addresses (is it possible?)

[JK]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I think his question was - is it possible to do aliasing on bonded NICs.
> 
> e.g. you have eth0 and eth1 as physical NICS slaved to bond0 (a virtual
> NIC).  Can you then have a bond0 and a bond0:1?
> 
> I don't know the answer.  I've used aliasing and I've used bonding but
> never both at once.  Just figured I'd try to clarify the question as it
> seems an interesting one.  I'd guess the answer was no since bond0 isn't
> a real NIC.  (similarly ethtool and mii-tool don't really deal with
> bond0 though they may give you an answer [bogus answer of course])

Whereas I'd guess the answer is "yes", since aliasing is
a kernel operation on a logical network interface, not a
hardware device. (In contrast to ethtool etc., which attempt
to directly interrogate the hardware.)

-- JK