My Oracle Support Banner

How to Config Vlan on Bonding NIC on from OL4/RHEL4 to OL6/RHEL6 (Doc ID 436555.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Enterprise Linux 4.3 to Oracle Linux 6.9 [Release RHEL4U3 to OL6U9]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Itanium
Linux x86 Linux Kernel - Version: 2.6.9 to 2.6.32




Goal

This note tries to exemplify how to config vlan on bonding network interface on the following OS:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 6
  • Oracle Linux 4 
  • Oracle Linux 5 
  • Oracle Linux 6

The configuration of switch to support vlan is not covered by this note.

Solution

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!

In this Document
Goal
Solution
 1. Key Points to Finish This Task
 2. Testing Enviroment
 3. Configure Bonding interface
 3.1 Configure Bonding interface on RHEL4/OL4
 3.2 Configure Bonding interface on RHEL5/OL5
 3.3 Configure Bonding interface on RHEL6/OL6
 4. Configure Vlan on Bonding Interface
 5. How to Verify Your Vlan is Working

My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.