Overview

To support networking high availability on Linux® systems, the Linux bonding driver provides a method to aggregate multiple network interfaces into a single logical network interface. Thereby, if a failure occurs on a single link of the network, it does not impact the network availability. It also allows the network to overcome the bandwidth limitation and balance the network traffic on multiple network devices.

This paper covers the Linux channel bonding configurations on different Linux distributions on IBM® Z, and explains the recommended options for the Linux bonding driver.