It turns out that the bonding driver does indeed handle interface
redundancy to two separate switches. Martin was right and the kernel
documentation file (networking/bonding.txt) is packed full of useful
information. The specific section that deals with what I need is under
the heading "High
I am interested in setting up a host with dual ethernet connections to the same
IP subnet (but different switches) for redundancy. We need reasonably
transparent failover if an interface fails. In studying the existing HOWTO
documents and other stuff produced by Google, it looks like the confi