NFS on RHEL/Rocky/AlmaLinux - Network Design

# Create bond using nmcli (RHEL 8/9)
sudo nmcli connection add type bond \
    con-name bond0 \
    ifname bond0 \
    bond.options "mode=802.3ad,miimon=100,xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4"

# Add slaves
sudo nmcli connection add type ethernet \
    slave-type bond \
    con-name bond0-slave1 \
    ifname eth1 \
    master bond0

sudo nmcli connection add type ethernet \
    slave-type bond \
    con-name bond0-slave2 \
    ifname eth2 \
    master bond0

# Configure IP
sudo nmcli connection modify bond0 \
    ipv4.addresses 10.100.1.101/24 \
    ipv4.method manual

# Set MTU for jumbo frames
sudo nmcli connection modify bond0 802-3-ethernet.mtu 9000

# Bring up the bond
sudo nmcli connection up bond0

• Each flow (source/dest IP+port) uses a single link

• Single NFS mount may use only one link

• Use nconnect to create multiple TCP connections that may hash to different links

# Allow NFS services
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=nfs
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=rpc-bind
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=mountd
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

# Verify
sudo firewall-cmd --list-services