networking service: support definition of bonding interface

Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 31 Oct 2017 22:59

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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.

Ricardo

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

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> 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...)

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 5 Nov 2017 22:16

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severity 29093 wishlist