From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: With the recent bonding changes in 2.4.x and 2.6.0, the ifenslave software distributed with redhat9 won't work with kernel 2.6.0. However, they have accepted patches in 2.4 and have patches pending in 2.6.0 that fix this problem (without upgrading ifenslave). One patch is given here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=106778491601133&w=2 Also, more discussion on this, including bitkeeper packages is available here (a bug I filed with the kernel developers): http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.0-0.test9-1.67 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ifup bond0 2.ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1 3. Actual Results: BOND_SETHWADDR on eth0 failed: Operation not permitted Expected Results: Success! Additional info: This seems to be a relatively simple fix. I tried using the rawhide RPM of iputils, but they wouldn't install on a Redhat 9 system with all errata and the necessary RPMS for the 2.6.0 kernel.
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