Re: Trying to convert an old hand-rolled bonding configuration to NetworkManager

[Thomas Graf <tgraf infradead org>]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:59:16AM -0400, Andrew Mahone wrote:
> For a while now I've had my ethernet and wifi devices bonded in
> active-backup mode, such that (on my home network, where they're
> bridged) I can seamlessly unplug and retain my IP address and all
> active connections, losing only speed. I've installed the latest
> NetworkManager from git, and I'm trying to replicate this setup with
> NM. I run Arch, which installed a NetworkManager.conf that uses the
> keyfile plugin. There doesn't seem to be any documentation describing
> the use of anything but the ifcfg-rh plugin - can this even be
> expected to work?

It use the same format as the initscripts. Seeé
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html

> 
> I have a bonding connection set up with type=bond, and a bond section
> in its config:
> [bond]
> interface-name=bond0

DEVICE=bond0

> mode=active-backup

BONDING_OPTS="mode=..."

~Thomas