Description of problem: I have two interfaces eth0 and eth1, each a bcm5700 100 Mbit NIC. When bonding these two interfaces i get several errors in /var/log/messages when I either boot the server or issue a "service network restart". Interface bond0 works however I have not tried to do any failover yet. Kernel 2.4.9-e.27smp. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-6.47.8-1 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up bonding between eth0 eth1 according to bonding.txt 2. Try to start or restart your network, or reboot 3. Watch your /var/log/messages Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 99647 [details] Output from various commands, logs, config-files
When was the last point at which this worked, if at all?
Created attachment 99685 [details] Error message with initscripts-6.47.2-1.1
I got almost the same errors with the older version of initscripts. See above attachment.
A fresh install with RH AS2.1 update 2 will produce these error messages
The bonding driver is unsupported at the kernel level in AS2.1; ergo, changes will probably not be made in the initscripts in the future.
Created attachment 100976 [details] changed ifup script Actually, I did find a case where this can happen. If you try the attached 'ifup' file (just put it in /sbin), does the situation improve?
These changes should be in current errata initscripts.