Alternative Bond Mode Options
- Active backup
- Only one NIC in the bond is active. A different NIC becomes active if, and only if, the active NIC fails. The single logical bonded interface's MAC address is externally visible on only one NIC (port) to avoid distortion in the network switch. This mode provides fault tolerance.
- Link aggregation
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol provides a method to control the bundling of several physical ports together to form a single logical channel. LACP allows a network device to negotiate an automatic bundling of links by sending LACP packets to the peer. (directly connect a device that also implements LACP)
- This is used when the switch supports LACP and can be configured to create a bonded port pair
- Round-robin
- Round-robin policy (RR) transmit packets in sequential order from the first available NIC through the last. This mode provides load balancing and and fault tolerance.
- This is typically used when the switch doesn't support 802.380 LACP
- XOR
- XOR policy transmits based on a source MAC address, destination MAC address and packet type ID XOR. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
- This is typically used when the switch doesn't support 802.380 LACP