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Problems with active-backup bonding

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2008-07-29
2013-06-06
  • Stefan Wüthrich

    Hi all!

    I need help to configure a bond0 with 2 devices eth0 and eth1 (active-backup mode). The Bond is comming up, but it runs only over eth1. For Primary Slave i've configured eth0. When i pull the networkcable from eth1 and plug it in eth0 it dosen't work.

    Here's my configuration:

    modprobe.conf:
    alias bond0 bonding
    options bond0 mode=active-backup primary=eth0 miimon=100

    ifcfg-bond0:
    DEVICE=bond0
    IPADDR=10.236.213.60
    NETWORK=10.236.213.0
    NETMASK=255.255.255.128
    USERCTL=no
    BOOTPROTO=none
    ONBOOT=yes
    TYPE=Ethernet
    IPV6INIT=no
    PEERDNS=yes
    GATEWAY=10.236.213.1

    ifcfg-eth0:
    DEVICE=eth0
    ONBOOT=yes
    BOOTPROTO=none
    #USERCTL=no
    MASTER=bond0
    SLAVE=yes
    HWADDR=00:1E:4F:40:03:E9
    #TYPE=Ethernet

    ifcfg-eth1:
    DEVICE=eth1
    ONBOOT=yes
    BOOTPROTO=none
    #USERCTL=no
    MASTER=bond0
    SLAVE=yes
    HWADDR=00:1E:4F:40:03:E7
    #TYPE=Ethernet

    output of "less /proc/net/bonding/bond0":
    Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.3 (June 8, 2005)

    Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
    Primary Slave: eth0
    Currently Active Slave: eth1
    MII Status: up
    MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
    Up Delay (ms): 0
    Down Delay (ms): 0

    Slave Interface: eth0
    MII Status: down
    Link Failure Count: 0
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1e:4f:40:03:e9

    Slave Interface: eth1
    MII Status: up
    Link Failure Count: 1
    Permanent HW addr: 00:1e:4f:40:03:e7

    output of ifconfig -a:
    bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:4F:40:03:E9
              inet addr:10.236.213.60  Bcast:10.236.213.127  Mask:255.255.255.128
              inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:2071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:273737 (267.3 KiB)  TX bytes:35282 (34.4 KiB)

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:4F:40:03:E9
              BROADCAST SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
              Interrupt:169 Memory:f4000000-f4011100

    eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:4F:40:03:E9
              inet6 addr: fe80::21e:4fff:fe40:3e9/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:2071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:273737 (267.3 KiB)  TX bytes:35282 (34.4 KiB)
              Interrupt:169 Memory:f8000000-f8011100

    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:3321 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:3321 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:1810081 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1810081 (1.7 MiB)

    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
              NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

    Greetings

     
    • Stefan Wüthrich

      i've fixed the problem!

      There was a ifcg-eth0.bak in the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

      after i removed the file the bonding works correctly now!

      good to know! ;)

       

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