I am running kernel version 2.2.16 on a Dual PIII800 with 3 Intel NIC's. (Compaq Proliant DL380) I discovered the bonding driver and set it up with all three cards which appears to work fine. While I was playing round I did an ifconfig bond0 down which resulted in a kernel panic. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000040. I know this is not much help but it illistrates the problem. The problem seems to be reproducable but unfortunatly the machine has been put into service. I do however have another identical box on which I might be able to do some further testing. Looking at the bonding driver code, there is not much to go wrong so I would assume it is a simple fix but I don't know. Could the fact that it is an SMP box matter? Any help or pointers would be great as I have put the box in to service as a departmental mail server and I don't really want it crashing on me :). John Newbigin Unix Systems Administrator School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
