bond 3 NICs into 1 produces a lot of tcpdump
 

Dear All,

How to bond 3 physical ethernet interfaces together to look and act as a single interface under FC2?

I ran below common setup, but I met a lot of tcpdump on my linux console..

/etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0
alias eth1
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

ifcfg-eth0,ifcfg-eth1, and ifcfg-eth2

DEVICE=eth<n>
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

ifcfg-bond0:
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=172.16.1.5
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

after I ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start, it started successfully but I met a lot of tcpdump on my console and I am unable to do any thing on my console..
is it normal?

how to store all of tcpdump into /var/log/bond.log ?

Many thanks in advance

Regards
Winanjaya

See the manpages for tcpdump(8) -- the -w flag. (Or redirect the output.)