Hi, I'm trying to use a bond device using two (2) ethernet NICs for two RH Linux nodes. The link between the 2 Linux nodes is made it using 2 crossover cables for each NIC. I did not find any additional docs for this except kernel help and something in iputils package and probably I'm going wrong somewhere, because after the devices (bond and ethXX) are up when I try to ping the other node I got a lot of lost packages and the speed don't seems to be improved. I'm using RedHat 6.2 with iputils-20001010-1.6x.rpm and 2.4.2-kernel with bond driver built-in. Here are the settings for one of nodes (the other is almost the same except IPs): /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifcfg-bond0: DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.1.198 /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifcfg-eth1: DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none /etc/host.conf order hosts, bind multi on The /etc/hosts file contains the IPs for each of the nodes on both. I have to mention that I cannot even open any TCP connection between nodes which in normal case (without bond interface) is possible. Any help will be highly appreciated, Thank you -- Adrian Turcu System Administrator - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
