Ethernet
For more details on link aggregation, see EtherChannel, Multi-link trunking, and 802.3ad.On Ethernet interfaces, channel bonding requires assistance from both the Ethernet switch and the host computer's operating system, which must "stripe" the delivery of frames across the network interfaces in the same manner that I/O is striped across disks in a RAID array. For this reason, channel bonding is sometimes also called Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes (RAIN) or "redundant array of independent network interfaces".
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