Thursday, 8 August 2019

Setting up bonding with LACP using the ip command in Linux

This can be accomplished quite quickly with the IP command if you only need it temporarily: ip link add bond0 type bond ip link set bond0 down ip link set bond0 type bond mode 802.3ad ip link set enp1s0 down ip link set enp1s0 master bond0 ip link set enp2s0 down ip link set enp2s0 master bond0 ip link set bond0 up and to remove the bonding we can issue: ip link del bond0 ip link set enp1s0 up ip link set enp2s0 ...

Quickstart: Installing Arch Linux 2019.X

Firstly download the latest iso image from one of the mirrors below: https://www.archlinux.org/download wget https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/iso/2019.08.01/archlinux-xxxx.xx.xx-x86_64.iso and then write it to your preferred media: dd bs=8M if=archlinux-xxxx.xx.xx-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX | sync Upon booting the image select the default selection to boot Arch. This will get you into the system under the root user. The setup portion is a Gentoo style approach of efffectively 'assembling' the system yourself. From here we'll...