I am able to bring up a bonded NIC in Centos4 without requiring to bring
up the bond0 with an ip address, but with CentOS-3 I must assign the NIC
an address or eth0 and eth1 will not slave.
I need to bring bond0 up without an ip address becuase I will be using
tagged VLANs.
ie.
<snip /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0>
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=169.254.0.1
USERCTL=no
</snip>
I can later manually do something like the following from a post network
script, but I am wondering why this is different in CentOS-4.
ifconfig bond0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
if I change the ifcfg-bond0 to not have an ip address.
ie.
<snip /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0>
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
#IPADDR=169.254.0.1
USERCTL=no
</snip>
Then when I restart the network neither eth0 or eth1 are enslaved.
