Hi,

I have installed Centos 6.2 in IBM X 3610 server with two Ethernet ports. I have bonded the ethernet ports and the output as folows:


Every 0.1s: cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Fri Jun 21 15:31:39 2013

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)

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
Speed: 100 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:21:5e:38:4b:f1
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: 100 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:21:5e:38:4b:f0
Slave queue ID: 0


whenever I restart network service it gives the following error:

Shutting down interface bond0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
bringing up bond0 [ failed ]
error: someother host already uses address 10.20.79.101

If I restart the server and restart the service it's throwing the same error. But When I unplug the cable, restart the service{lo & bond0 ok} , am not getting the error and plug the cable back its pinging.


dmesg output
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)
bonding: bond0 is being created...
bonding: cannot add bond bond0; already exists
bonding: Bond creation failed.
bonding: bond0: setting mode to active-backup (1).
bonding: bond0: Setting MII monitoring interval to 100.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth0.
alloc irq_desc for 24 on node -1
alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
tg3 0000:08:00.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth1.
alloc irq_desc for 25 on node -1
alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
tg3 0000:09:00.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth1 as a backup interface with a down link.
tg3 0000:08:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:08:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0, 100 Mbps full duplex.
bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
bonding: bond0: first active interface up!
bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth1, 100 Mbps full duplex.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
bond0: no IPv6 routers present
readahead-collector: starting delayed service auditd
readahead-collector: sorting
readahead-collector: finished
tg3 0000:08:00.0: eth0: Link is down
bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth0, disabling it
bonding: bond0: making interface eth1 the new active one.
tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Link is down
bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth1, disabling it
bonding: bond0: now running without any active interface !
bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth0
bonding: bond0: Warning: the permanent HWaddr of eth0 - 00:21:5e:38:4b:f1 - is still in use by bond0. Set the HWaddr of eth0 to a different address to avoid conflicts.
bonding: bond0: releasing backup interface eth0
tg3 0000:08:00.0: PME# enabled
bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth1
bonding: bond0: releasing backup interface eth1
tg3 0000:09:00.0: PME# enabled
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
bonding: bond0: setting mode to active-backup (1).
bonding: bond0: Setting MII monitoring interval to 100.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth0.
tg3 0000:08:00.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth1.
tg3 0000:09:00.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth1 as a backup interface with a down link.
tg3 0000:08:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:08:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0, 100 Mbps full duplex.
bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
bonding: bond0: first active interface up!
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth1, 100 Mbps full duplex.
bond0: no IPv6 routers present

Try this :

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Add # to comment the HWADDR line

Hi,

I apologize for the delay in replying. The issue was resolved after NetworkManager service was started. Is there any specific reason for this. I shall be happy to know how it got resolved by starting NetworkManager service.