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Old 10-25-2006, 05:55 PM   #1
Akhran
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NIC Bonding: Does not failover successfully. Only one NIC is active


I have bonded two NICs by

1) installing ifenslave package
2) adding the 'bonding' module into /etc/modules
3) creating a /etc/modprobe.d/bond0 file and with the content "options bonding mode=0 miimon=100"
4) edit /etc/network/interfaces by removing all references to eth0 and eth1 and adding bond0 configuration
5) reboot

This method works on one of my machines with lots of other stuff already installed. However, on my refresh installation, it does not work; when eth0 is disabled, the connectivity is down. It doesn't failover to eth1. But if eth1 is disabled, the connectivity stays up. Looks like only eth0 is active.

Configuration as follows:

# cat /etc/modules

loop
bonding

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/bond0

options bonding mode=0 miimon=100

# cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.1.220
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.254
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.254
dns-search home.intranet
up ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
down ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1

# ifconfig

bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:B8:02C
inet addr:192.168.1.220 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb8:2dc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8644 (8.4 KiB) TX bytes:4442 (4.3 KiB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:B8:02C
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb8:2dc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5686 (5.5 KiB) TX bytes:1630 (1.5 KiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0x1400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:B8:02C
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb8:2dc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2958 (2.8 KiB) TX bytes:2812 (2.7 KiB)
Interrupt:177 Base address:0x1480

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.0.3 (March 23, 2006)

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:b8:02:dc

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:b8:02:e6

Appreciate any help on this.

Thanks !
 
Old 02-18-2011, 04:43 AM   #2
ptanguy
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hoping it has been solved by now

hello,
i am also having a bonding problem, with the options.
using mode=0 in the options, you logically get Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin).
You have a fail over bonding with mode=1.
However, if one nic is down, fail over or load balancing, the other card should take the traffic.
So may be you have (had) a driver problem.

Pierre
 
Old 02-18-2011, 07:26 PM   #3
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Dude, this thread is over 5 years old. Let it die.
 
  


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