Overview of Network Teaming Runners
Network teaming logically links NICs for failover or higher throughput. RHEL 7 uses a kernel driver and the teamd user-space daemon to implement this. The behavior of the team is determined by the 'runner' selected:
broadcast: Transmits every packet from all ports.roundrobin: Transmits packets in a round-robin fashion across ports.activebackup: A failover runner that monitors link changes and selects an active port for data input.loadbalance: Monitors traffic and uses a hash function to balance packets across ports.lacp: Implements the 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), using the same port selection as loadbalance.