Linux Bonding Driver
The linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interface controllers (NICs) into a single logical bonded interface of two or more so called (nic) slaves. The majority of modern Linux distributions (distros) come with a Linux kernel which has the linux bonding driver integrated as a loadable kernel module and the ifenslave (if = (network) interface) user level control program pre-installed. The linux bonding driver was originally programmed by Donald Becker. It came into use with the beowulf cluster patches for the GNU/Linux kernel 2.0.
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