DSS V7 How to create bonding

Article ID: 2353

Last updated: 29 Mar, 2013

In order to create a bonding interface:

select the network interfaces you want to create a new bonding interface for,
select the preferred bonding mode from the Create drop-down menu,
select dynamic (DHCP) or static configuration for the network interface,
if you want to get a DNS address dynamically, select get DNS,
when using static configuration for a network interface, enter the IP address, netmask, broadcast and gateway.Afterwards, click the Create button and a new bonding interface will be created.

NOTE In order to take advantage of bonding more than one ethernet NIC needs to be plugged into the

box.

Please note that MAC addresses need to have a 02 prefix, for example: 02:xx:yy:zz:vv:nn