try to bond two NIC but cant seem to work. Any experts can offer any advice? Suspect vmware simply doesnt support virtual machine running NIC bonding but I cant be sure switch: vmware workstation virtual network os:Oracle Enterprise Linux r5u5 x64 *note /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. Now uses /etc/modprobe.d/abc.conf http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/R..._Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces-chan.html #configuration: vi /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf :<<: alias bond0 bonding alias bond1 bonding : vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 :<<: #bond eth0 and eth1 DEVICE=bond0 IPADDR=192.168.70.51 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none USERCTL=no #mii monitoring interval 100ms. Mode=1 active/backup BONDING_OPTS="miimon=100 mode=1" : vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :<<: #slave of bond0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes USERCTL=no : vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 :<<: #slave of bond0 DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes USERCTL=no : #check route -n :<<: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.10.10.48 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth2 192.168.70.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 bond0 192.168.132.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 bond1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 bond1 0.0.0.0 192.168.70.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 bond0 : 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: 00:0c:29:00:98:40 Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:00:98:4a : ifconfig :<<: bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:00:98:40 inet addr:192.168.70.51 Bcast:192.168.70.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe00:9840/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4681 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:509171 (497.2 KiB) TX bytes:763684 (745.7 KiB) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:00:98:40 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:476087 (464.9 KiB) TX bytes:755170 (737.4 KiB) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:00:98:40 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:34206 (33.4 KiB) TX bytes:11478 (11.2 KiB) : #testing. Incoming:use another box to ping to bond0 192.168.70.51. Outgoinging to gateway 192.168.70.2 ifdown eth0 cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 :<<: Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: None Currently Active Slave: eth1 MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 100 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:00:98:4a : ###result:failed. Ping no reply ifup eth0 ifdown eth1 cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 :<<: 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: 00:0c:29:00:98:40 : ###resultass. Ping have reply It seems only eth0 is functioning. I have another bond1 with mode=1(round robin) which show exact behaviour. Anyone to shed a light on these?
