nic bonding

NIC bonding (or NIC teaming) is used to aggregate the link to increase the throughput and provide the redundancy. On our Dell servers running Redhat Linux and Centos, we do NIC bonding on the first two embedded NICs: em1 and em2 (read the new Network Interface naming convention).

To enable NIC bonding, first you will need to load the kernel module by creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf

alias bond0 bonding