Re: Support for bonding?

["Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, David Abrahams <dave boostpro com> wrote:
> Has any thought been given to supporting a setup like the one described here:
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/312#comment_9 ?  I googled up that
> post when thinking about how to retain connectivity when moving from wired to
> wireless and vice-versa.  I'm happy to do the configuration manually (although
> someone clearly wants NM to handle it: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10534/)
> but it seems at least likely that NM might interfere.  If that's not the case,
> so much the better; I'll try to set it up and see what happens.  Regardless,
> allowing people to dock/undock or plug-in/roam without interrupting their
> connections seems like it's right up NM's alley.

I have been thinking about supporting bonding in NetworkManager
(personally, I'd _love_ to have it), some people even argue that the
current multiple device support does not make sense without bonding.
There's an issue though with using bonding with wpa_supplicant
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483207 ,
http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=270) so that needs to
get solved first.

Tambet