Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 502491
rtl8139 doesn't work with bonding in alb mode
Last modified: 2015-05-04 21:16:56 EDT
Description of problem: NICs with chip Realtek 8139 are unable to change address when the interface is up. This causes that these NICs cannot be enslaved to bonding interface in alb mode which requires this functionality. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up bonding interface in mode alb 2. enslave 8139 NIC Actual results: # ifenslave bond0 eth0 Master 'bond0', Slave 'eth0': Error: Enslave failed fragment from dmesg: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1 bonding: bond0: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth0 failed! ALB mode requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the network device's interface is open Expected results: NIC is enslaved without problems. Additional info: upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=bda6a15a0d283d531b865fb7c596bb3ff258e87e upstream commit for 8139c+: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c048aaf4ca854fa67a3bfa9dab5b9ddc5083b3b7
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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 therefore 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/RHSA-2010-0178.html