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Asked: 2014-10-07 18:40:15 +0800 CST

link aggregation with wifi and ethernet on Linux

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I have a computer running linux with a wifi and an ethernet interface. I'd like to set up link aggregation (at least fail-over, but other modes would be nice too) between these two so that both this computer, and others on the network see only a single IP address - is this possible?

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  1. I have not tested this, but if this works at all, I expect your choices are limited to active-backup (aka Mode 1) bonding, with the fail_over_mac=active bonding option. See: bonding.txt

    This is because almost every WiFi card will not send frames which have a non-local source MAC, and load balancing modes like balance-xor and 802.3ad (aka LACP) want to change the MAC of the device on enslavement.

    That being said, I don't really understand what you are protecting against. High Availability from bonding gives protection against link failure. If link goes down on a WiFi NIC, the access point is off, so you're not going to get signal on the other NIC anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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