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Log into a Linux server that’s dual-homed to a pair of data center switches and check its bond. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 prints exactly one partner System ID.
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Log into a Linux server that’s dual-homed to a pair of data center switches and check its bond. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 prints exactly one partner System ID.

Every few years comes some variation of the same ticket. A server team stands up a new backup target, we hand them four 10 gig ports in an LACP bundle, and everything comes up clean.