It lets you use two ethernet cards as a single interface, assuming the switch
they're plugged into supports it. Cheap way to get 200 mbps throughput,
especially with a switch that only does gigabit on the uplink port.
See Documentation/networking/bonding.txt in the kernel tarball...
Rob
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