Generating, configuring, and monitoring Ethernet traffic over bond
When using bare-metal servers as dedicated hosts or Linux systems that host virtual machines using the KVM hypervisor, the network can be a weak point. Fortunately, this issue can be resolved by implementing Ethernet bonding, also known as network bonding, or Network Interface Card (NIC) bonding. It is a technology in Linux that allows you to combine multiple NICs into a single logical interface. This logical interface, known as a bond or bonded interface, provides increased network bandwidth, fault tolerance, and load balancing. These are summarized as follows:
- Load balancing: Bonding distributes network traffic across multiple NICs, increasing bandwidth. Various algorithms, such as round-robin, active-backup, and XOR, can be used depending on specific requirements.
- Fault tolerance: In the event of an NIC or network link failure, Ethernet bonding can automatically switch traffic to another active NIC. This...