To provide Seamless Network Performance and Reliability we provide redundant uplinks to our Colocation and Dedicated Server customers.
This allows us to perform maintenance or withstand a switch failure without impact to you, our customer.
To utilize both links at the same time we use LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
Here is a quick guide how to set up LACP
Centos 7:
The interfaces should be called eth0 and eth1, you can check by typing
| ip address |
Once you know the names of the two NIC's you will need to configure NIC bonding on the OS.
The first step is to create a bond interface, please create the following config file in a text editor of your choice:
| vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 |
This file will be empty. To configure the bond interface please copy the following text to the file:
