Set up (802.3ad LACP) bonding when installing CentOS 8

SCREENSHOT 11) Click on the dropdown box to select the connection type of the bonding slave device.

It might be grey as if it is not enabled, but if you click on the dropdown box you could select the type. And the dialog will change it state from gray to normal aka active state.

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Editing Bond connection – choose a connection type

SCREENSHOT 12) Select the Ethernet from the dropdown box.

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Editing Bond connection – choose a connection type 2 – ethernet

SCREENSHOT 13) Click on “Create…” button to add the second ethernet device to the bonding device created above.

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Editing Bond connection – selected ethernet 2 device

SCREENSHOT 14) Select the proper network interface (ens1f1) from the dropdown box and click on “Save”.

By clicking on “Save” the network device will be added to the bodning group.

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Editing Bond connection – edit slave 2

SCREENSHOT 15) Select “IPv4 Settings” to set an IP.

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Editing Bond connection – Bonded Connections

SCREENSHOT 16) Select “Manual” from the dropdown box “Method” menu.

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Editing Bond connection – IPv4 Settings

SCREENSHOT 17) Click on “Add” to add an IP Address, Network Mask and Gateway.

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Editing Bond connection – IPv4 Settings – Add

SCREENSHOT 18) Fill the IP Address, Network Mask, Gateway and then the DNS servers (Google DNS servers are used here).

Click on “General” to continue.

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Editing Bond connection – IPv4 Settings – ready

SCREENSHOT 19) Ensure the “Automatically connect to this network when it is available” to be sure the netowrking will start on boot and click on “Save” to save the Bonding setup.

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Editing Bond connection – General

SCREENSHOT 20) The Bond device is ready. There are two slaves, the bond device with name “bond0” is connected and the IP address is set successfully.

Edit the Host Name text box and click on “Apply” to the the hostname of the machine.

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Network and Host Name – Done

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