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Configure interface bonding using nmcli

Configure interface bonding using nmcli

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

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Configure interface bonding using nmcli

- [Narrator] For this exercise you'll need to have your rhhost2 vm booted up and be logged in with the terminal open. In this video, we'll bind two network interfaces using the network manager command line interface. Just so we don't assume anything, let's check the status of network manager first. Type in systemctl, space status, space NetworkManager, with a capital N and a capital M, and hit enter. From this we can see that it's running. And we can also see information about dhcp activity as well. Now let's list our network interfaces. Type in clear, and then type in nmcli, space dev, space status, and hit Enter. We see our main network interface as well as the two that are not configured, ens9 and ens10. Now let's load the bonding driver. Type in sudo, space modprobe, space bonding, and hit Enter. Type in your password if prompted, and double check with lsmod. Type in lsmod, space pipe, space grep, space bonding and hit Enter. Now we'll create the bond0 logical interface, just like…

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