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After you have configured channel bonding on both the ReadyDATA 

system and the switch, it might take a few moments for the 
ReadyDATA system to receive the IP addresses on all VNICs. 
During this time, access to the ReadyDATA system is interrupted.

The new bonded channel displays as an aggregation interface (aggrX, in which X is a 
number in sequential and ascending order) with its VNICs and associated IP addresses 
on the Network screen.

Note the following about channel bonding:

Any additional VNICs that you create are children of the Ethernet interface (NIC) that you 

used to create the channel bond. A child VNIC receives a MAC address that is identical to 
the MAC address of the parent NIC except for the second transmission octet, which 
increments by 1. The following is an example:

MAC address of the parent NIC: 00:0D:A2:C7:91:AF

MAC address of a child VNIC: 

 

  00:0E:A2:C7:91:AF

After configuring channel bonding, if you lose communication with the ReadyDATA 

system, connect to one of the available NICs on the ReadyDATA system to reestablish 
communication.

While you configure channel bonding, if the ReadyDATA system cannot locate a DHCP 
server, or fails to release an IP address, it assigns an automatic private IP address 
(APIPA) to a VNIC. This IP address is in the 169.254.x.x/16 subnet. The last two octets of 
the address are derived from the MAC address of the VNIC.