Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 17
3 For high availability, edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and set the option for link monitoring.
The default value for miimon is 0, which disables link monitoring. Change the value to
100 milliseconds initially, and adjust it as needed to improve performance as shown in the following
example. Type:
options bonding miimon=100 mode=1
4
In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, create or edit the ifcfg-bond0 configuration file.
For example, using sample network parameters, the file would appear as follows:
DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
The entries for NETMASK , NETWORK , and BROADCAST are optional.
DEVICE=bondn is the required name for the bond, where n specifies the bond number.
IPADDR is the private IP address.
To use bond0 as a virtual device, you must specify which devices will be bonded as slaves.
5 For each device that is a bond member, perform the following steps:
a In the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ , edit the ifcfg-eth n file, containing the
following lines:
DEVICE=ethn
HWADDR=<MAC ADDRESS>
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
b Ty p e service network restart and ignore any warnings.
6 On each node , type ifconfig to verify that the private interface is functioning.
The private IP address for the node should be assigned to the private interface bond0.
7 When the private IP addresses are set up on every node, ping each IP address from one node to ensure
that the private network is functioning.