Proxmox Link Aggregation Using balance-alb Windows vs Linux
Proxmox Link Aggregation Using balance-alb Mode Explanation I have this nice little business switch that unfortunately doesn't support LACP for network link aggregation. One of my cables also turned out to be a little bit faulty, so to prevent any mishaps in the future I decided to configure a link bond between the proxmox box's two NICs (Network Interface Cards). Link bonding, also known as Link aggregation or NIC Teaming is where you have two network interfaces on your host working together. This can provide some redundancy, load balancing, and even increase your throughput depending on your configuration. the balance-alb setting can be used regardless of what the switch supports. It's best only used on small networks. I ran into an interesting problem. None of the VM's could access the network after changing my proxmox box to use the balance-alb bond mode. The solution turned out to be simple. For windows VM's Install the VirtIO driver in windows, and then se...