Dear Friends ,

I have to configure NIC bonding among two NICs in RHEL 5.
But it's not working . My physical cable is connecting with 'eth1' . After configuring Bonding , I have a look the below file :

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[root@Muyang ~]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.3 (June 8, 2005)

Bonding Mode: transmit load balancing
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth0
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: 00:30:48:87:d5:42

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: down
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:30:48:87:d5:43
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Here the above file "Currently Active Slave: eth0" . But I want to active 'eth1' as Currently Active Slave . How can I do it ? plz help .. ...

Hello,

I haven't set up bonding much but I always needed both (or in my case all four) interfaces connected. Maybe that's your primary problem since you state you have your cable physically connected to eth1. Connect the second interface as well (without a connection how can you get traffic on that interface? Let alone bind it with another?).

Kind regards,

Eric

Thx ,

I have connected both cable with the two NIC . But the problem is , when a cable of a one NIC is removed (let , ETH0), then bond0 is not switched to another NIC (ETH1) , which is connected with another cable .

I get the NIC which is now actiove from below command from :


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[root@Muyang ~]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.3 (June 8, 2005)

Bonding Mode: transmit load balancing
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth0
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: 00:30:48:87:d5:42

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: down
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:30:48:87:d5:43


How I make auto switching between two NIC , when one NIC cable is removed .

Waiting for kind reply ... ...

Hi,

Now you're confusing me. As I understand NIC bonding it's to combine the two (or more) network interfaces to function as one but I've never set it up like you intend to. As indicated in your original post you indicated Bonding Mode: transmit load balancing. As far as I know you cannot have load balancing with only one active NIC. Can you explain what exactly it is you are trying to configure?

Kind regards,

Eric

OK EricTRA , I tell u brief .

In RHEL 5 , I have to configure BOND using TWO NIC . Every NIC is connected with two different cables . My configuration files are :


[root@rpttst ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

[root@rpttst ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

[root@rpttst ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.0.57
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
USERCTL=no
[root@rpttst ~]#

[root@rpttst ~]# modprobe bond0
[root@rpttst ~]# service network restart

Now I check which NIC card is active using the below command :
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[root@rpttst ~]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0 (October 7, 2008)
Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth0
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: e4:1f:13:1a:17:00

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: e4:1f:13:1a:17:02
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Here, eth0 is currently active . now if I make eth0 down (ifdown eth0) it auto switches to 'eth1' . But my problem is :

If both NIC are up and 'eth0' is currently active , at that moment If i remove cable from the 'eth0' interface , then it is not auto switching to 'eth1' . It holds the 'eth0' active unless i manually shutdown the 'eth0' (like , ifdown eth0) .

so I need to know if cable are disconnected from one of a NIC (either 'eth0' or 'eth1') then how to I make auto switching to another active node .

Here, also I mention that, I tried it using 'mode=0' and 'mode=1' , but the problem is not solved . Hope Now I clear my problem .

Waiting for your kind reply ... ...

Hello,

Now it's a bit clearer what you're trying to set up. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Try adding MODE=1 to your ethX configuration files and restart networking.

For your setup you need mode 1 I believe:
Kind regards,

Eric

Ok I have to configure the following way now :

[root@rpttst network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
MODE=1

[root@rpttst network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
MODE=1


[root@rpttst network-scripts]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 bnx2
alias eth1 bnx2
alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptsas
alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter3 usb-storage
alias usb0 cdc_ether
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1

But the problem is not solved . when I remove the cable the problem remains same .

Hi,

The only thing I can think off more is to put:
in the bond0 specification. If you run ifconfig you should notice that the MAC address is assigned to all three interfaces and that eth0 and eth1 should be indicated as slave. Have a look at this site for a practical example.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hello,

Your bonding config is confusing your switch.
Where are both of your NICs getting terminated ? on the same switches ? or separate ?
if vlans are configured, which I hope they would be, are the same vlans available on both switches ?

Lastly, please remove the mode=1 from the ifcfg-ethX files.

in the modprobe.config files, try mode=5 or mode =6.

One of which will work.

cheers.

Try with use_carrier=1 option in /etc/modprobe.conf,

options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1 use_carrier=1

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