Hi, Can anybody give me an idea about how to properly set up a server to be configured for ethernet trunking at boot time? Our file server is a dual Opteron running SuSE 9.0 for AMD64, and has dual gigabit ethernet cards, and I have them both connected to the switch (with trunking enabled for those ports). I am doing this with a kluge, but have not had the time or patience to figure out how to do it better. The commands I use are: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down ifconfig bond0 192.168.0.100 ifenslave bond0 eth0 ifenslave bond0 eth1 The modules.conf file has: alias bond0 bonding alias eth0 bcm5700 alias eth1 bcm5700 In YaST, I configured eth0 and eth1 with dummy ipnumbers, just to make sure that the driver loads and the interfaces exist, that's the reason why they have to be stopped before bringing up bond0. I added "alias bond0 bonding" manually to modules.conf. Is anybody else out there using ethernet trunking (bonding), and how to you set it up? Thanks, John Craig