GNU bug report logs - #29093
networking service: support definition of bonding interface

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>, 29093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29093: networking service: support definition of bonding interface
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 21:43:15 +0100

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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> The networking service currently does not offer a way to configure a
> bonding interface (e.g. joining two physical network interfaces to one
> bonded network interface).
>
> This would be a very useful thing to have for berlin.guixsd.org, which
> has quite a few dedicated NICs.

Well, there is one way, through Open vSwitch, but it's rather
heavy-handed if all you need is 802.3ad.

It would be good to have "libteam" as a lightweight alternative.

(...makes mental TODO...)

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