[ILUG] Japanese Bonding

[Robert Sweetnam]

>From the HP Site:


When Red Hat EL3 and Red Hat EL21 (above initscripts-6.47.5-1) bonding
is utilized at on, the phenomenon that occurs boot (or
/etc/init.d/network START) immediately after, the below-mentioned
warning message the log is done to /var/log/messages. As for this, the
fact that the processing sequence of the network starting script
differs from other distribution is cause.

The basic sequence which sets bonding device first sets network
information to master device, next uses ifenslave command and attach
does slave device to master device. Ifenslave, the case of attach,
acquires network information from master, device sets the information
which is acquired to slave device. Because Red Hat2.1 (under
initscripts-6.47.5-1) with, it is conformed to the basic sequence,
network information is set to slave device. But, Red Hat EL3 or Red
Hat EL21 (above initscripts-6.47.5-1) with, master device (in this
case because bond0) to before network information is set, ifenslave
tries attach of slave device, it cannot acquire the network
information of master, device vis-a-vis slave device necessarily set
it cannot. Master device after the attach processing to of slave
device ends, is set network information. Because of this, Red Hat EL3
and Red Hat EL21 (above initscripts-6.47.5-1) with, after the network
starting, the phenomenon that occurs warning message the log is done
to /var/log/messages.

Cheers
Robert



On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:56:39 +0100, Kevin Brennan <kevb at eircom.net> wrote:
> I am setting up bonding (using mode 802.3ad) and am getting the following
> error on ifup bond0. Distro is whitebox respin 1 (that's RHES3 clone). The
> strange thing is bonding seems to work fine (ie. can pull cables and keep
> connection) even though ip's are not assigned (not in the ifconfig printout
> for eth0/eth1). I wonder has anybody out there had similar. Box is a DELL
> poweredge 1750 these come with twin GB Broadcom NetXtreme 5704 NIC's (using
> tg3 module). The only reference I could find to similar was on a Japanese HP
> support page (any japanese speakers out there) -
> http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/support/doc/option/nic/bon
> ding_rhel_diff.html.