Bug 296531

Created attachment 206271 [details]
fail_over_mac option for bonding

This patch adds a fail_over_mac option to bonding, to permit active-backup to
function on devices that are displeased by having the MAC duplicated to all
slaves.  Patch against RHEL 2.6.18-43.el5 kernel.

Created attachment 210891 [details]
TFD for feature

TFD for this feature.

------- Comment From vosburgh.com 2007-10-16 14:29 EDT-------
Bonding 'fail over mac' accepted into mainline.

Thanks, Jay.  I'll try and get this added for the next update (5.2).

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

QE ack for RHEL5.2.

My test kernels have been updated to include a patch for this bugzilla.

http://people.redhat.com/agospoda/#rhel5

Please test them and report back your results.

(In reply to comment #7)
> My test kernels have been updated to include a patch for this bugzilla.

Andy, Do you want this bz re-assigned to you ?  I've built the attached patches
attached here into my kernels (http://people.redhat.com/smoser/rhel5u2)

Sure thing, Scott.  Sorry to steal your thunder on this one, but I did a big
bonding update to 3.2.0 and this got added into the mix.

------- Comment From vosburgh.com 2007-12-10 20:16 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #13)
> ------- Comment From agospoda 2007-12-06 15:13 EST-------
> My test kernels have been updated to include a patch for this bugzilla.
>
> http://people.redhat.com/agospoda/#rhel5
>
> Please test them and report back your results.

I gave the 2.6.18-58.el5.gtest.32 kernel a test drive, and it appears to
function as expected (with regard to the fail_over_mac business).

This enhancement request was evaluated by the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux team
for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor release.   As a result of this
evaluation, Red Hat has tentatively approved inclusion of this feature in the
next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update minor release.   While it is a goal to
include this enhancement in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
the enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in the next minor release
pending the next phase of actual code integration and successful Red Hat and
partner testing.

You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

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------- Comment From sglass.com 2008-04-17 13:15 EDT-------
This is marked verified in devtrack, closing the bug

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html