Linux Administrator Interview Question:

What are the different modes of network bonding in Linux?

Submitted by: Murtaza

☛ balance-rr or 0 - round-robin mode for fault tolerance and load balancing.
☛ active-backup or 1 - Sets active-backup mode for fault tolerance.
☛ balance-xor or 2 - Sets an XOR (exclusive-or) mode for fault tolerance and load balancing.
☛ broadcast or 3 - Sets a broadcast mode for fault tolerance. All transmissions are sent on all slave interfaces.
☛ 802.3ad or 4 - Sets an IEEE 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation mode. Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed & duplex settings.
☛ balance-tlb or 5 - Sets a Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) mode for fault tolerance & load balancing.
☛ balance-alb or 6 - Sets an Active Load Balancing (ALB) mode for fault tolerance & load balancing.
Submitted by: Murtaza