3.2 Configuration with Initscripts Support ------------------------------------------
This section applies to distros using a version of initscripts with bonding support, for example, Red Hat Linux 9 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 or 4. On these systems, the network initialization scripts have some knowledge of bonding, and can be configured to control bonding devices.
These distros will not automatically load the network adapter driver unless the ethX device is configured with an IP address. Because of this constraint, users must manually configure a network-script file for all physical adapters that will be members of a bondX link. Network script files are located in the directory:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
The file name must be prefixed with "ifcfg-eth" and suffixed with the adapter's physical adapter number. For example, the script for eth0 would be named /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.Place the following text in the file: RX packets:2302 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2014 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:234137 (228.6 KiB) TX bytes:482422 (471.1 KiB) Interrupt:17 Base address:0xd400
