guys we have 2 severs those servers have are using bonding the issue is servers suddenly stop responding I mean the services they provide are not accesible and the only way to get them back is taking the interface down and up for the switch so servers/services are available again We think is the driver NICs that might be very old...or the bond driver... This is a IBM Blade. Basically if you can provide me some guide on this. Information - I attached the messages_log Red Hat Enterprise release 5 (Tikanga) 2.6.18-8.el5 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.0.3 (March 23, 2006) - BTW I would like to know how to update this driver to more recent version if that's possible? how can I get Driver version for NICs? command? I only get this Code: # dmesg | grep Eth NICs eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95715s) rev 9003 PHY(5714)] (PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet eth2: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95714s) rev 9003 PHY(5714)] (PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.0.3 (March 23, 2006) root@---bonding]# cat bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.0.3 (March 23, 2006) Bonding Mode: load balancing (xor) Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0) MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 80 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Slave Interface: eth2 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:1a:64:56:7f:66 Slave Interface: eth3 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:1a:64:56:7f:67 [root@net]# ethtool eth2 Settings for eth2: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes [root@net]# ethtool eth3 Settings for eth3: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes thanks a lot
