Bonding protocol (short for "Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group") is a generic name for a method of bonding or aggregation of multiple physical links to form a single logical link.
Bonding is the term often used in
Linux
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implementations: on Windows based systems the term
teaming is often used, and between network-devices we talk about link aggregation, LAG and
Link Aggregation Control Protocol.
Major categories
* Asynchronous bonding protocol
* Synchronous bonding protocol
See also
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Channel bonding
In computer networking, link aggregation is the combining ( aggregating) of multiple network connections in parallel by any of several methods, in order to increase throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain, to provide redunda ...
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Inverse multiplexer
An inverse multiplexer (often abbreviated to inverse MUX or IMUX) allows a data stream to be broken into multiple lower data rate communication links. An inverse multiplexer differs from a demultiplexer because the multiple output streams from ...
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Link aggregation
In computer networking, link aggregation is the combining ( aggregating) of multiple network connections in parallel by any of several methods, in order to increase throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain, to provide redunda ...
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