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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:40 -0500, Ryan Fish wrote:
> Is it possible to bond NICs with multiple IP address bound to them?
> If so, do I just use bond0:1 and so forth?  My online searching for
> this info has been fruitless so far?
> 

It won't hurt (much) to try. My thinking (I haven't read through the
bonding module source code) is that it won't work to use virtual
interfaces as slaved in a bond. With bonding you are building a virtual
interface out of physical ones. The manner of linking the physical
devices logically varies and some require specific abilities from the
hardware driver - like the ability to alter the MAC address on the fly -
which is why I think using virtual devices as slaves won't work. 

If you were using say, eth0:1 and eth1:3 and eth5 in a bond, every time
the MAC was changed on eth0:1 and eth1:3 all of the other virtual
interfaces on those devices would fail. And maybe not silently but
violently.
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> OS: RHEL3
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> Thank you.
> 
> -Ryan
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