Is this supported? Has anyone had any luck implementing a simple Linux NIC bonding senario as is described here: ? http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfaces-nic-into-single-interface.html
I followed this guide in bonding three nics on a Cent OS 4.4 Linux box (basically a free clone of Redhat Enterprrise) and eveything worked as advertised as far as Linux was concerned. I now had a virtual bond0 NIC (which aggregated three physical gig-e nics eth0, eth1, and eth2)
During the VMware Server install it recognize that I had multiple NICs and asked me which network interface I wanted to bridge to vmnet0. I selected bond0. Everything else completed as normal.
I then fired up WinPE in a VM to test everything out (I have done this many times before). If I drop to a dos box and do an IPconfig I see that the vm was properly assigned an IP address through DHCP (so far so good).
At this point if I try to ping my default gateway replys stop after three replys! I can repeat this / reboot the VM and like clockwork after the third ping reply the network stops responding.[/b] Why would vmnet0 work with the virtual bond0 for ony enough time to get an IP address via DHCP and reply to a few packets? Why is it dying?
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
DOM