From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Galeon/1.3.10 Description of problem: According to the source, the RHEL3 bonding driver supports 7 modes of operation, which are listed below: Mode 0 - Round Robin: Packets are sent out all the slave interfaces round-robin style Mode 1 - Active-backup: 1 slave interface is used for all packets. If it should fail the second slave interface will take over. Mode 2 - XOR: packets are load balaced to each interface according to an exclusive or of a subset of the packet header information. Mode 3 - Broadcast: All packets are sent out all interfaces (this is actually mis-documented currently in the RHEL3 docs) Mode 4 - 802.3ad: Packets are distributed among the slave interfaces according to a hash function. Link status is also maintained by the 802.3ad link aggregation protocol. Mode 5 - TLB: Packets are load balanced according to transmit stats (transmit load balancing) Mode 6 - ALB: Packets are load balanced according to transmit/receive statistics (adaptive load balancing). Currently we only document the first 4 modes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel-rg(EN)-3-HTML-RHI (2003-07-25T17:13) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at RHEL-3 source code 2. 3. Additional info: