RE: port bonding and taps

PPowenski_at_oag.com
Date: 10/02/03

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    To: johnflynn@fastmail.fm, focus-ids@securityfocus.com
    Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:00:50 +0100 
    
    

    I am using channel bonding with RH 9 and it works great

    you must define your bond device in /etc/modules.conf
    i.e.
    alias bond0 bonding
    options bond0 miimon=100 downdelay=0

    the man file has the options details with more but they were required to
    operate properly.

    also
    ifconfig bond0 up promisc
    ifconfig eth1 up promisc
    ifenslave bond0 eth1
    ifconfig eth2 up promisc
    ifenslave bond0 eth2

    I put this in a S98ehtbond under /etc/rc3.d and /etc/rc5.d in case x or no x
    window at startup

    hope this helps.

    Red Hat 8(pretty sure) and sure of 9 has channel bonding already setup.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Flynn [mailto:johnflynn@fastmail.fm]
    Sent: 01 October 2003 19:54
    To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
    Subject: port bonding and taps

    Hi all,

    I'm trying to set up various snort boxes, both on fiber and copper taps. In
    order to reconstruct both sides of the stream I understand that one needs to
    use multiple cards since the tap outputs the tx and rx on separate channels.
    The problem is that to make snort alert correctly one really has to
    aggregate the directions. This is commonly done using a spanning port, but
    we do not have enough of those at our facility to go around. In linux (and
    in general) it seems this idea is called port bonding. There is a bonding
    kernel module for linux and appropriate commands for setting this up
    (ifenslave etc), but it seems to be very poorly documented. I have tried to
    set up bonding multiple times and could not seem to get it to work. Does
    anyone have good documentation on how to do this type of set up, or perhaps
    a better way to do snort+taps without using a spanning port? Thanks, John
    Flynn

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