Help needed Teaming Nics on DL380 under RedHat

[f0rmat]

I have a HP Dl380 G4 rackmount that I need to team the gigabit nic's together. My only problem is, I've only ever teamed nics together under windows and I have no idea how to do it in linux. I installed the PSP but still can't see any way to team them. If I can get NFT teaming that is what I'm looking for. I'm not that interested in load balancing. I just want to be able to pull 1 cable, and have the other pick up.

Can anyone help at all?? I'm a desperate man. =]

 

[NDeters]

Here are the steps I used to bond/team nics on an Integrity4640 running RH4.0:

1. Create a new ifcfg-bond0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.xxx.xxx
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.xxx.xxx
GATEWAY=192.168.x.x
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROT=none
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

2. Modify the two config files for the interfaces you want bonded:

DEVICE=eth0
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

3. I also had to add in a couple lines to my /etc/modprobe.conf for this to work:

alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=1 miimon=100 max_bonds=2

Then restart the server and you should see the devices come up slaved to bond0. From then on, you should have a fault tolerant connection. Your driver will also have to support this feature of course.