Hack and / - Bond, Ethernet Bond

Listing 1. Bond Script for Red Hat Users

# bond bond0 eth0 eth1

#!/usr/bin/perl

# bond -- create a bonded interface out of one or 
# more physical interfaces
# Created by Kyle Rankin
#

my $bond_interface = shift;
my @interfaces = @ARGV;
my $network_scripts_path = '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/';
my $bond_mode=1;
my $bond_miimon=100;
my $bond_max=2;

usage() unless (@ARGV);
if($#interfaces < 1){
   usage("ERROR: You must have at least 2 interfaces to bond!");
}

system("/etc/init.d/network stop");

config_bond_master($bond_interface, $interfaces[0]);
foreach(@interfaces){
   config_bond_slave($bond_interface, $_);
}
config_modules($bond_interface, $bond_miimon, $bond_mode);

system("/etc/init.d/network start") or die 
 ↪"Couldn't start networking: $!\n";

sub usage
{
   $error = shift;
   print "$error\n" if($error);
   print "Usage: $0 bond_interface interface1 interface2 [...]\n";
   print "\nbond_interface will use the network 
   ↪settings of interface1\n";
   exit
}

sub config_bond_master
{
   my $bond_interface = shift;
   my $main_interface = shift;
   my $netconfig_ref = get_network_config($main_interface);

   open CONFIG, "> $network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$bond_interface" 
   ↪or die "Can't open 
   ↪$network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$bond_interface: $!\n";

   print CONFIG "DEVICE=$bond_interface\n";
   foreach(keys %$netconfig_ref){
      unless($_ eq "HWADDR" || $_ eq "DEVICE"){
         print CONFIG "$_=$$netconfig_ref{$_}\n";
      }
   }
   close CONFIG;
}

sub config_bond_slave
{
   my $bond_interface = shift;
   my $slave_interface = shift;
   my $netconfig_ref = get_network_config($slave_interface);

   open CONFIG, "> $network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$slave_interface" 
   ↪or die "Can't open 
   ↪$network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$slave_interface: $!\n";
   print CONFIG <<"EOC";
DEVICE=$slave_interface
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=$bond_interface
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
EOC
   if($$netconfig_ref{'HWADDR'}){
      print CONFIG "HWADDR=$$netconfig_ref{'HWADDR'}";
   }
}

# This subroutine returns a hash with key-value pairs matching 
# the network configuration for the interface passed as an 
# argument according to the configuration file in 
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-interface
sub get_network_config
{
   my $interface = shift;
   my %netconfig;
   open(CONFIG, "$network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$interface") 
   ↪or die "Can't open 
   ↪$network_scripts_path/ifcfg-$interface: $!\n";
   while(<CONFIG>)
   {
      chomp;
      ($key, $value) = split '=';
      $netconfig{uc($key)} = $value;
   }
   close CONFIG;
   return \%netconfig;
}

sub config_modules
{
   my $bond_interface = shift;
   my $bond_miimon = shift;
   my $bond_mode = shift;
   my $bond_options_configured = 0;
   my $bond_alias_configured = 0;

   if(-f "/etc/modprobe.conf"){ # for 2.6 kernels
      $module_config = "/etc/modprobe.conf";
   }
   else {
      $module_config = "/etc/modules.conf";
   }
   open CONFIG, "$module_config" or die 
   ↪"Can't open $module_config: $!\n";
   while(<CONFIG>){
      if(/options bonding/){ $bond_options_configured = 1; }
      if(/alias $bond_interface bonding/){ 
      ↪$bond_alias_configured = 1; }
   }
   close CONFIG;

   open CONFIG, ">> $module_config" or die 
   ↪"Can't open $module_config: $!\n";
   unless($bond_alias_configured)
   {
      print CONFIG "alias $bond_interface bonding\n";
   }
   unless($bond_options_configured)
   {
      print CONFIG "options bonding 
      ↪miimon=$bond_miimon mode=$bond_mode max_bonds=$bond_max\n";
   }
   close CONFIG;
}