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Bonding is creation of a single bonded interface by combining 2 or more ethernet interfaces. This helps in high availability and performance improvement.

How to setup dual-dual bonding (two bonds of two interfaces each) on Ubuntu as quickly as possible.

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So say that you are running out of resources and can’t buy a new Ethernet card for the system, or there’s not enough slots for another one. No problem, whatever the reason, we can assign two or more IP addresses to our linux box using only one NIC.


I’ll do it in Fedora.

• Go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory
• Copy ifcfg-eth0 to the same directory and name the copy as ifcfg-eth0:0.
• Edit ifcfg-eth0:0 and enter your new IP address settings

And you’re done. So simple na. You can add up to 255 different IP addresses to one linux machine using this technique

There are different ways of installing a network card in linux – and that too depending on the linux distribution that you are using. I will explain each one of these methods here.
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