whitivery <co55-sy1t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Setting up bonding in active-backup mode 1 (using ARP monitoring) >on a server, it looked OK, but pulling the active link cable >didn't actually work, it didn't fail over. > >Eventually with manual playing around with modprobe, ifconfig, >ifenslave, etc., a solution was stumbled upon: enslave the eth1 >device before eth0, and all is good. > >Why this should matter is a puzzle - I could not find anything in >bonding.txt or on the web about it. > >I had to change ifup-eth to fix the problem. > >Any ideas on why the enslavement order matters, or a better >solution to work around it? > >The rest of this post is details. > > >To fix this, I had to patch >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth to reverse the order when >it is updating the sysfs slaves list. A 1-line change, from: > >for device in $(LANG=C egrep -l "^[[:space:]]*MASTER=\"?${DEVICE}\"?" >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*) ; do > >to: > >for device in $(LANG=C egrep -l "^[[:space:]]*MASTER=\"?${DEVICE}\"?" >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* | sort -r) ; do > > >With that change, everything works perfectly. > >I don't like this solution (changing standard system files) but >it seems like the best one for now, and should not break >anything. > > >Maybe it's the particular network devices. Platform is VIA M850 >running CentOS5.7 64-bit, original content from DVD (no yum >update done). > >Eth0 is the onboard device, using an updated VIA Velocity driver >(velocityget 1.42 instead of default via-velocity): > >05:00.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6120/VT6121/VT6122 >Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 82) > >Eth1 is a Linksys (Cisco) USB300M USB-Ethernet dongle, using asix >driver: > >Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b95:7720 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772 > >Modprobe.conf: > >alias eth0 velocityget > >With the network service enabled (NetworkManager disabled), this >is my setup: > >ifcfg-bond0: > >DEVICE=bond0 >BOOTPROTO=none >ONBOOT=yes >IPADDR=10.6.0.90 >NETMASK=255.255.255.0 >GATEWAY=10.6.0.1 >BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=300 primary=eth0 >arp_ip_target=+10.6.0.1 arp_ip_target=+10.6.0.2" > >ifcfg-eth0: > >DEVICE=eth0 >BOOTPROTO=none >ONBOOT=yes >IPADDR=10.6.0.90 >NETMASK=255.255.255.0 >GATEWAY=10.6.0.1 >HWADDR=00:1F:F2:03:FA:45 >MASTER=bond0 >SLAVE=yes > >ifcfg-eth1: > >DEVICE=eth1 >BOOTPROTO=none >ONBOOT=yes >IPADDR=10.6.1.90 >NETMASK=255.255.255.0 >GATEWAY=10.6.0.1 >MASTER=bond0 >SLAVE=yes >HWADDR=58:6d:8f:3d:8d:4f Is there a better group to post this to? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos