Xen users - Jul 2010 - Setting up bonding + bridges in Debian /etc/network/interfaces

My needing was to configure eth0 eth1 as slave of bond0 with xen.
network-bridge script didn''t work because it calls ifdown/ifup on the
interface, so after a bit of playing I managed to figure out how to set
up it in the Debian Way.

However it''s possible to configure as many interfaces as you want in
this way.

Here''s the content of my /etc/network/interfaces
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# The bridge interface.
# The lines with pre-up and post-down are to bring up the
# bond before the bridge. The ''--allow "$IFACE"''
parameter to
# ifup/ifdown and the corresponding "allow-br0 bond0" line
aren''t
# really needed, but I like them.

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        bridge_ports bond0
        bridge_maxwait 0
        pre-up ifup --allow "$IFACE" bond0
        post-down ifdown --allow "$IFACE" bond0

# The bond interface
# notice it''s set as manual to allow the scripts in ifenslave-2.6
# package to create the master interface and enslave the slaves.

allow-br0 bond0
iface bond0 inet manual
        bond_slaves eth0 eth1
        bond_miimon 100
        bond_mode balance-tlb

# Physical interfaces.
# Notice they are set as manual to permit you to add up/down commands
# and special directives such as wifi configurations.
# Lines beginning with allow-bond0 are required if you want to do
# something with these interfaces, otherwise you can remove both of
# them as they are brought up when they are enslaved to their master.

allow-bond0 eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

allow-bond0 eth1
iface eth1 inet manual

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I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Marco

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