What is the current state of NIC bonding/trunking under Karmic?

[john]

Hi all,

As a follow up, nic-bonding isn't working for me, at least not by
following the directions
that apparently for for 8.10

I have two interface that I am trying to bond eth1 and eth2. My goal
is to serve dhcp via bond0 to the ltsp clients. I am still trying to
figure out if I need to put an LACP enabled switch between my bonded
nics and the rest of the network.

I wonder if anyone else has successfully set up nic bonding for Karmic
or has any ideas what steps I might take?

Thanks!

John

Here's the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces file

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
	address 10.1.3.234
	netmask 255.255.240.0
	network 10.1.0.0
	broadcast 10.1.15.255	
	gateway 10.1.6.114

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
	address 192.168.0.254
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	network 192.168.0.0
	broadcast 192.168.0.255
	slaves eth1 eth2
	bond-mode 1
	bond-miimon 100


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am experimenting with NIC bonding/trunking since I am having some
> latency/freezing on clients when I have >20 TC's streaming youtube
> etc.
> I see this howto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Trunking
> which looks good. However, I have several questions:
>
> 1) has anything changed under karmic or can I safely use the approach
> outlined above?
> 2) does anyone recommend a particular bonding scheme e.g. "adapative"
> vs. "round-robin" etc.
> 3) If this indeed a good howto, should it be added to the list of
> links at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>