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NOTE: There are many types of bond interfaces that linux bonding modules support. There are certain types of bond interfaces that will need the upstream network equipment (switch or router) to be configured with corresponding configuration eg: 802.3ad with Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
And there are other types of bond interfaces that will not need any upstream network equipment configuration eg: active-backup mode, adaptive load balancing mode, etc.
At this point it is not clear what type of bonding interfaces customers might ask for in the future. Within the scope of this document we define placeholder API definitions for bond interfaces and represent how bonds will look in the bigger picture, but not discuss any implementation specific details.
Object Model
Today’s object model has two layers, and we will discuss a new intermediate layer below:
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