From the course: Linux System Engineer: Network Bonding, IPv6, Routing, and Virtual Systems

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About link aggregation

About link aggregation

From the course: Linux System Engineer: Network Bonding, IPv6, Routing, and Virtual Systems

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About link aggregation

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- [Instructor] Link aggregation combines two or more network connections allowing them to act as one. This functionality is known by many names, such as channel bonding, port trunking, channel teaming, and NIC teaming. Commercial products such as Cisco Switches use the term, ether channel, to describe a type of link aggregation. The Linux kernel has included link aggregation for many years, but now includes two different types; network bonding and network teaming. Network bonding has been around since kernel version two, but network teaming is available only as of Enterprise Linux 7. Both of these technologies try to solve the same problem, but do it in different ways. Network bonding is handled in kernel space and is mature as it's been around since version two of the kernel. Bonding combines multiple network connections into one link. Network teaming has a small kernel module, but most of its functionality is handled in user space and is managed by teamd service. Network teaming is…

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