Leaving the values won't confuse the bonding driver. I leave them specifically because that helps to tie down interface so they are always the same. eth0 will thus always be the same physical interface and so on. Can you point me to the documentation that supports removing hwaddr lines... It is also likely that the manipulation of configuration files differs from distro to distro... The bonding driver documentation states that you can specify options for the bond interface in the ifcfg-bondX file but that has not been the case for me. I still have to specify options in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Simpson > Sent: 31 March 2008 13:35 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: NIC Teaming > > On 3/27/08, Gerrard Geldenhuis <Gerrard.Geldenhuis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Vivek, > > It is also called bonding which might yield better results in google. > > > > It is actually very simple: > > Create a new file called ifcfg-bond0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ > > with the following data inside: > > DEVICE=bond0 > > BOOTPROTO=static > > ONBOOT=yes > > IPADDR=Your ip here > > NETMASK=Your netmask here > > > > In the interface that you want as part of the bond edit the appropriate > > file. For example ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth2 which can also be found in > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ > > > > You should edit out the ip address and netmask. Make sure the bootproto > > is none, keep the hardware address, add slave=yes and add master=bond0 > > > > DEVICE=eth0 > > BOOTPROTO=none > > HWADDR=AA:AA:C4:BE:AA:AA > > ONBOOT=yes > > TYPE=Ethernet > > SLAVE=yes > > MASTER=bond0 > > > > Hi there > > i thought that you were meant to remove the HWADDR= lines from > ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 as bonding manipulates these values to make > the necessary arp magic work. > > the documentation seems to support this view. > > mike > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
