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Hi All,

I currently having issues with creating multiple instances of NIC Bonding on Ubuntu Server 8.04, running on a HP DL385G2.

I can successfully create one instance of NIC Bonding across two interfaces (eth2 and eth3, broadcom NICs), using the following guide http://www.howtoforge.com/network_bonding_ubuntu_6.10.

I want to create another instance of NIC bonding utilising eth0 and eth1 (Intel PRO1000 NICs), however, after duplicating the instructions in the above guide to create a new "bond1", and restarting the network, I receive an error indicating there is no such device "bond1".

Any help would be very much appreciated, below are the modifications to various files to try get bond0 and bond1 going.

(1) /etc/modprobe.d/aliases:

Code:

alias eth0 e1000

alias eth1 e1000

alias eth2 bnx2

alias eth3 bnx2



# alias net-pf-10 ipv6

alias bond0 bonding

options bond0 mode=0 miimon=100



alias bond1 bonding

options bond1 mode=0 miimon=100

(2) /etc/modutils/actions

Code:

probeall bond0 eth2 eth3 bonding

probeall bond1 eth0 eth1 bonding

(3) /etc/network/interfaces

Code:

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



auto bond0

iface bond0 inet static

        hwaddress ether 00:16:3e:35:8c:89

        address 10.240.1.200

        netmask 255.255.252.0

        gateway 10.240.1.1

        dns-nameservers 10.240.1.210

        up ifenslave bond0 eth2 eth3

        down ifenslave -d bond0 eth2 eth3



auto bond1

iface bond1 inet static

        hwaddress ether 00:16:3e:20:b4:65

        address 192.168.200.200

        netmask 255.255.255.0

        up ifenslave bond1 eth0 eth1

        down ifenslave -d bond1 eth0 eth1

Thanks in advance for any help you could provide me.

Gene