Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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8 Link Aggregation
The following sections provide information on link aggregation.
8.1 Windows
The Broadcom NetXtreme-E devices can aggregate network links using the Microsoft teaming feature. For more information
on the NIC teaming functionality, see the Microsoft public documentation on Microsoft.com.
Microsoft LBFO is a native teaming driver that can be used in the Windows OS. The teaming driver also provides VLAN
tagging capabilities.
8.2 Linux
The Linux bonding module is used for link aggregation under Linux. For additional documentation on Linux bonding, see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.
Use the following steps to setup basic Linux bonding:
1. Load the bonding module using the following command:
modprobe bonding mode="balance-alb"
2. Add physical network interfaces to the bond interface using the following commands:
ifenslave bond0 ethX
ifenslave bond0 ethY
3. Assign an IP address to bond the interface. IPV4Address and NetMask are an IPv4 address and the associated network
mask.
ifconfig bond0 <IP address> netmask <netmask>