Bonding on two different link speeds

[Raymond Burns]

I am about to deploy a new cluster using 10gb Intel NIC.
Is it possible to have a single 10gb NIC and a single 1gb NIC in active-backup bond?
I want to get full 10gb throughput on the active and fail-over to 1gb on failure of primary NIC.
I am NOT looking for a way to get 11gb/s.
I want a 10gb full duplex connection, unless it fails, at which point it will be a 1gb full duplex connection.
Is this possible?

 

[elderone]

Sure, got one working with linux bonding. With OVS bonding though, didn't find the way to force 10G port to be always primary.
Here's my interfaces setup:

# 1Gbit link
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
bond-master bond0
bond-primary eth6
bond-mode active-backup

# 10Gbit link
auto eth6
iface eth6 inet manual
bond-master bond0
bond-primary eth6
bond-mode active-backup

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet manual
bond-slaves none
bond-primary eth6
bond-miimon 100
bond-mode active-backup
bond_downdelay 200
bond_updelay 200

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 192.168.80.62
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.80.1
bridge_ports bond0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
post-up ( echo 0 > /sys/class/net/$IFACE/bridge/multicast_snooping )