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[Jonathan Proulx <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 03:25:56PM -0400, Samuel Winchenbach wrote:

:It looks like 802.3ad is for making parallel, redundant connections.   I
:only have two NICs in the server; I don't think I would want to bind by
:internal and external NICs together would I?

What you want is up to you :)

You could though if you then use VLANs to segregate the internal and
external traffic over the bonded link.  We're not doing this in our
OpenStack but do have older production virtulization systems where
we're using VLANs over bonded NICs.

-Jon